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APATHY for politics was a problem 2000 years ago! “One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.” Plato •Read more about it: Thought for today The Thames Today

THE POWERFUL have always enjoyed freedom of movement. “My fellow Americans, we are and always will be a nation of immigrants. We were strangers once, too.” US President Barack Obama •Read more about it: Thought for today The Thames Today

FED UP WITH injustice, but tired of constantly fighting? You’re not alone. “People always say that I didn’t give up my seat because I was tired, but that isn’t true. I was not tired physically… No, the only tired I ...

RICHARD BURGON MP, current candidate for Deputy Leader of the Labour Party, indulged in some plain speaking during the 2015 leadership contest. “I do think it’s unfair to characterise Jeremy Corbyn and his campaign as some sort of time travel ...

JUST A MINUTE… it’s the end of an era. “…that’s what life’s about, isn’t it? Having fun.” Nicholas Parsons, 1923-2020, RIP •Read more about it: Thought for today The Thames Today

HERE IS A timely quote from Cllr Rabina Khan, written three years ago, to mark Holocaust Memorial Day but which also raises a much more profound question. “Genocide starts with the rhetoric of hate, and we can’t forget that on ...

THE PRINCE and the prosecutor: one issue; two points of view. “[I am] willing to help any appropriate law enforcement agency.” Prince Andrew, speaking last November about the inquiry into the allegations of sex trafficking against his former friend, the ...

WHERE ARE they now? Sometimes you just can’t answer that question… “This account doesn’t exist.” Twitter, in answer to a search for Jim Fitzpatrick MP •Read more about it: Thought for today The Thames Today

WHAT IS THE music industry doing to young women? In a new documentary, Miss Americana, Taylor Swift has revealed that she used to starve herself to earn rewards from magazine editors and avoid negative press comment. Now, she’s changed her ...

RADICAL WORDS from the UK’s next Head of State – but there is little sign that his whimsical diplomacy will unsettle the status quo across the world. “Words are used as badges of shame to mark others as enemies, to ...