Today is the seventy fifth anniversary of the HMS Windrush arrival in the United Kingdom. This was the boat that brought with it the first great wave of immigrants, from the Carribean, to England. As the UK Prime Minister Harold MacMillan said a few years later, the “winds of change,” blew through the Commonwealth and […]
Picture: The Paris steets burn in violent disruption. On a day meant to celebrate a nation, in a week in which there is little it might seem, in it to celebrate, we, any of us, who care, must care to comment and react. It is the very purpose of our Forum. Bastille Day is, […]
Picture: Janusz Korczak plays in the band with children in his orphanage The period from later July through early August, is a poignant one for admirers of the great Polish/Jewish doctor, Janusz Korczak, writer, educator, hero of the Holocaust. We celebrate his birth at the end of July and commemorate his death at the […]
The Ustinov Forum here continues the Awareness Awards devised and started in 2022, to honour professionals in the field of culture, who have utilised their talents in that field, to increase understanding of and make the case stronger against, prejudice. It memorialises recipients whose legacy should last and indeed shall. It continues to do so, […]
If your’e a business and your brand is known, it doesn’t stop the desire by the company, often or at least sometimes, to rebrand. If your’e a one man business, this is no different. Russell Brand, the comedian turned so called, guru, is no exception. However much he rails against corporations or commodities, he is […]
A definition of a Supernova is “a powerful and luminous explosion of a star.”https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supernova_remnant A Supernova remnant, like that depicted here in the picture, is defined as ” the structure resulting from the explosion of a star in a supernova. The supernova remnant is bounded by an expanding shockwave.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supernova_remnant The irony and tragedy in the […]
