Alison Phipps

ON Thursday, Hana-Rāwhiti Kareariki Maipi-Clarke, Aotearoa New Zealand’s youngest MP, stood to perform a haka in parliament. Slowly and with a great deal of mana – spirited power – she tore in half a controversial bill seeking to reinterpret the country’s founding treaty with Māori people.

The City of Tyre – Unesco World Heritage Site ‘THIS is Tyre now,” writes my Palestinian friend in Glasgow. “Unesco City.”

This outlawing of UNRWA is the equivalent, in the UK, of outlawing all charities working in education, health, and poverty relief and declaring them to be terror organisations

A MAN burning alive, a report from a reputable journalist, of children separated from mothers, thrown into a north Gaza pit in Jabalia Refugee Camp, left until their bones start cracking under the weight of sand being bulldozed onto them ...

IT’S one of those rare late summer, early autumn days. The schools are back, and, walking to work at the University of Glasgow, I find I am knee-deep in a warm, musical flow...

BACK home, we do it like this,” she says, and carefully places a woven basket with traditional Eritrean bread, called “Himbasha”, onto the beam supporting one of the thatched huts in the new Scottish Crannog Centre...

‘WE’VE found carved stone balls and the left wing bone of a sea eagle under the buttresses with carvings on stones.”

‘YOU made it?” ask friends, hopeful, concerned.

WE planted an olive tree at the University of Glasgow on Monday, in a quiet ceremony, as part of a keynote lecture I gave.

WE need visas to be issued to Palestinians trapped in Gaza so they can find safety...