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I never thought I’d ask this question but where is Tony Blair?As Hamas and the Israeli government square up – home-made rockets against F-18s – just where is our Middle East “peace envoy”?I thought he might have come out and done something (although on past behaviour I don’t know what I could have been expecting.)The…
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On Friday, the world said goodbye to Studs Terkel.Studs might not have been so well known on this side of the Atlantic but in the United States they are paying tribute to a “true American hero”.Studs was a performer, a journalist, an oral historian and a “rabble-rouser”.McCarthy tried to have him testify against leftist friends;…
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Psst, do you want to know a secret?It’s the story of a heroic Welshman, although it doesn’t start off very courageously.I mean, our heroes are rarely “mean-spirited” and “bony-faced”.They don’t normally have ill-shaped ears, or make a spectacle of themselves by only putting in their false teeth to eat.What manner of hero is this, I…
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Michael O’Brien spent 11 years behind bars for a murder he didn’t commit.In December 1999, after judges quashed his conviction, he asked me to write a piece about his two-week appeal.That request turned into a plan to write a complete book of Mike’s life.It is an incredible story.Mike’s arrest and life sentence for the murder…
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This short report on Archbishop Desmond Tutu’s visit to Gaza is only two minutes and three seconds long.Watching it won’t take up much of your weekend. But his words might stay with you for much longer.
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Back in the 1970s the BBC produced a critically-acclaimed drama series called Secret Army.The programme followed the exploits of a group of ordinary Belgians who ran an evasion line, helping Allied airman return to Britain after being shot down.The series was based on the Comet Line, a network established by a young Belgian girl, Andrée…
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Here’s a great snap. It shows a road traffic accident from almost 90 years ago. Even with so little traffic on the road in those days, this crash was certainly unusual enough to be marked and turned into a postcard. The card is captioned “Army (I think) Lorry Accident Caerleon Bridge, October 6, 1919″. It…
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Farewell to Tower Colliery – and best wishes to all the miners who made the final march from the pit today.Tower, a workers’ co-operative, was the last deep coal mine in South Wales. It is a remarkable story, which has been told many times. Despite the understandable mythologizing, the colliery has always been about basic…
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Family history is one of the most popular subjects on the internet.And our fascination with genealogy reveals an interesting truth.It’s embarrassing to find your father is a shoplifter; but discovering your great-great-grandfather was a cattle rustler is a matter of great pride.We long to dig up something interesting, even if it makes us a descendant…
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Vandals defaced a plaque in honour of the International Brigade volunteers who were killed nearly 70 years ago in the Battle of the Ebro.But on Saturday, November 10, a new plaque will be placed in memory of the dead of one of the Spanish Civil War’s bitterest battles.The memorial is set at the top of…
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Greg Lewis 