IAN BIRRELL: Deeming some lives to be ‘more valuable’ than others is utter inhumanity 

Deborah James is a deputy head teacher, a mother of two children and, since her devastating diagnosis with bowel cancer, she has become an inspiration to many for her frank discussions on the subject. She’s written a best-selling book, raised significant sums for charity and become a regular voice in the media despite 17 tumours … Read more

IAN BIRRELL: Deeming some lives to be ‘more valuable’ than others is utter inhumanity 

Deborah James is a deputy head teacher, a mother of two children and, since her devastating diagnosis with bowel cancer, she has become an inspiration to many for her frank discussions on the subject. She’s written a best-selling book, raised significant sums for charity and become a regular voice in the media despite 17 tumours … Read more

Shocking price of man’s inhumanity to woman

WAR  OUR BODIES THEIR BATTLEFIELD     by Christina Lamb (William Collins £20, 432 pp) Foreign correspondent Christina Lamb looks into the face of one of the world’s great hidden evils in this devastating book. Traumatic to write, deeply unsettling to read, it’s a global chronicle of mass-rape in war: a shocking indictment of man’s inhumanity to … Read more