Author: Suneil Sharma

My father was born in India and as a young man he fought for Indian independence but equally as importantly, he fought for India not to be partitioned and to embrace a secular constitution. He failed in the first but was proud along with his college friends to have achieved the second. My father lived…

Firstly, let me say from the outset that I have no love for a Tory, let alone a Tory Secretary of State. What I find odd, is that the current Secretary of State is being vilified for the failure of our public representatives elected by you, the electorate. At least on one issue both the…

I asked a question in a previous blog “Small Boats Small Beer” Is humanity as a collective agent an illusion? Well, the answer to that is sadly, an emphatic YES. Let us start locally, in a tiny place called Northern Ireland, where in 2023 many engaged in a backslapping event celebrating 25 years since the…

THE NEVER ENDING TRAGEDY October 7th 2023 is blazoned on my memory, the day that Hamas brutally massacred 1300 Israeli civilians and underpinned their brutality by violating women. Israel’s reaction was justified in going after Hamas and its leadership. What started as defending itself against terrorism, supported by almost all of the international community, is…

If Rishi Sunak has shown nothing else this week, he has shown that he has no grasp of what it takes to be a leader let alone a Prime Minister. He looks clueless and devoid of a vision for this country’s future highlighted by the fact he has gone back to the future, to bring…

In the previous blog, I wrote about the murderous rampage perpetrated by Hamas on 1400 Israelis, mothers, grandmothers, peace activists and children. We now see the deaths of thousands of Palestinian civilians, mothers, grandmothers, relief agency volunteers, medical volunteers, and children. To date, the death toll reported by a Hamas agency is 8000 of which…

UNPRECEDENTED The word unprecedented, with adjectives like audacious and horrific, has been used on numerous occasions to describe the brutality of the attack by Hamas, largely on innocent Israeli civilians. What is also unprecedented about this attack is the abject failure of Israeli intelligence, regarded by many as the best in the world, to see…

I have often mentioned that the greatest existential threat to our species is the climate crisis and its implications for global stability. So, let’s look specifically at it through the prism of climate-related mass migration in 4 areas:  Food insecurity is rising as a direct consequence of climate change. It is estimated that 80% of…