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Wearing the poppy is not a political gesture, but a remembrance of all who have given their lives so that we may sleep safely, by Joseph Kelly

There aren’t many things I’d care to remember about Liverpool’s shock defeat at West Ham last weekend, but there’s

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How one young person’s school strike exploded into a global movement, and is giving hope to all young people, by Joseph Kelly

For those of us old enough to remember the heady days of political campaigning in across the 1960s and

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Chancellor’s “moral” Budget promises must put the vulnerable in our society first, says Joseph Kelly

The problem with government Budgets from whatever party has always been trying to determine what they actually mean, and

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Face masks debate should be about concern for our neighbour, not a fixation with science, by Joseph Kelly

As the cold winter weather draws in, few of us will relish the thought of having to go out

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Is the fallout from Covid reawakening society to the real meaning of Christmas? By Joseph Kelly

If we’re to believe the mainstream media, this coming Christmas is threatening to be something of a stressful washout

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For Prisoners’ Sunday: the Government is playing God with our prisons, by Joseph Kelly

I’ve written a great deal about prisons over the years, and frankly most of it has made for fairly

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Is ‘hostile design’ damaging our cities?

It’s odd how sometimes the deepest conversations about architecture can pop up in the most unlikely of places. Take

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When Lazarus knocks our door

As we all struggled to keep body and mind together during the pandemic, many of us were consoled and

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Should we hand NHS back to local control?, by Joseph Kelly

After almost two years of Covid-19, there was understandably every hope that the autumn would see some kind of

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