When I first found feminism, and felt furious about everything, my mother tried to calm me down: “You don’t want to walk around angry all the time.” The thing was, I did. The anger I found with feminism was full of joy and clarity. It felt infinitely better than the emotions that came before it: anxiety,...
Wednesday, December 20, 2017
EastEnders: Jessie Wallace to return as Kat Moon
She was last seen dicing with death in EastEnders spin-off Redwater,
but it seems that Kat Moon has made it through her ordeal and is heading
back to Walford.
Fans left fearing that Kat had met her maker in the BBC1 drama can be
reassured: Jessie Wallace is set to reprise the role but...
Poet Paul Muldoon adds Queen's Gold Medal to poetry awards
Northern Ireland poet Paul Muldoon has won the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry 2017. Muldoon has produced 12 major collections, as well as children's books and song lyrics. Poet Laureate Dame Carol Ann Duffy paid tribute to the Co Armagh man as a contemporary of Seamus Heaney. "Paul Muldoon is widely...
Thursday, October 26, 2017
Friday, October 20, 2017
Nigeria, Turkey agree to strengthen security cooperation to counter terrorism
President Muhammadu Buhari his wife, Aisha and daughter,
Halima, join President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and wife, Emine, in a group
photograph at the Presidential Palace, Ankara, Turk...
Vacate our property: LGA issues quit notice to SARS in Rivers
The Special Anti-Robbery Squad, SARS has been evicted from their command at the Obio-Akpor International Market, Rukpokwu in Obio-Akpor Local government area of Rivers State. The eviction is contained in a notice signed by the Legal Adviser of Obio-Akpor Local government council, Victor Owhonda Wokem...
Wednesday, October 18, 2017
I owe no apology for inviting Zuma, erecting his statue
Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo State has accused the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, of not building the image of the state, as well as looting public treasury. The accusation comes days after he unveiled a huge statue in hounour of South African President, Jacob Zuma. The decision has been widely...
Tuesday, October 17, 2017
Christian friends flood Jerusalem
Christian worshippers take part in a Palm Sunday ceremony in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in the Old City of Jerusalem.
(photo credit:REUTE...
There is still hope the World Council of Churches repents
Pope Benedict XVI receives a book by Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit, general-secretary of the World Council of Churches (WCC).
(photo credit:OSSERVATORE ROMANO / REUTE...
Monday, October 16, 2017
Thursday, October 05, 2017
Christian group marks 120 years since Zionist Congress
The delegates at the First Zionist Congress, held in Basel, Switzerland, in 1897..
(photo credit:Wikimedia Common...
Wine Talk: Wine, food & words. FROM ISREAL
MASTER OF WINE Jancis Robinson has won every award under the sun, but
maintains the ability to look beginners in the eye and come down to
their level..
(photo credit:Courtes...
The best of October’s international art fairs
All eyes are on the capital this October as Frieze Week returns and with it a huge range of stellar gallery exhibitions, which run alongside Frieze London and Frieze Masters (5–8 October). Among the satellite events worth visiting are Moniker and The Other Art Fair at the Old Truman Brewery, as well...