To confront a person with his shadow is to show him his own light...Anyone who perceives his shadow and his light simultaneously sees himself from two sides and thus gets in the middle.-Carl Jung

We are more alike, my friend, than we are unalike. - Maya Angelou

The July...

Race crime has been in the headlines again. This time, two reports of men from predominantly Muslim communities, sexually exploiting and raping underage white girls. In Rochdale, England, eight men from the British Pakistani community and an Afghan were convicted of conspiracy to engage in sexual activity with...

Sadly, I was not surprised to read that brave Egyptian-American activist and writer, Mona Eltahawy faced a barrage of vitriolic abuse this week after the publication of her brilliant article 'Why do they Hate Us?'. Eltahawy's article (shock, horror) dared to criticise the worst excesses of patriarchal violence...

A Channel 4 News report last week asked: "Are we seeing a Tibetan Spring?" With 30 self-immolations in Tibet, the majority of them committed by...

So, Obama is meeting the future Chinese leader, Xi Jinping at the White House on 14 February, Valentine's Day. It is hard to think of a more (in) appropriate day for these two men to meet. Obama, is the first black US President and Nobel Peace Prize winner...

Personally, mainly as a result of my character and cultural background, I have little time or interest in watching the annual Superbowl event in the States. However, with the more than 100 million people watching the final showdown of the American Football season yesterday, I was interested to read that...

In 1998, the Diet Coke ad slogan was 'You are What You Drink'. If true, then judging by the latest Diet Coke ads women who drink it have a child-like mentality and like playing with dolls wearing heavy make-up, being glam and dieting. Personally, I don't buy or drink Coca...