The value of being citizens of Europe

Back in 2013, I wrote an article for my blog here called, ‘The value of being citizens of Europe’. I stated, ‘If you're a UK citizen confused about the value of EU membership, due to the untruths coming from UKIP and the national press, then just follow the evidence.’

I didn’t know then that within three years, Britain would vote to leave the EU in a referendum, leading to an end to EU citizenship for Britons. Today, I am republishing my article as it seems more pertinent now than it did in 2013:

On this day 9 November

Twenty-eight years ago today, on 9 November 1989, the people of Berlin – east and west – joined together to dismantle the wall that had cruelly separated their city for twenty-eight years.

Never again? It's happening again

After the Second World War, during which many millions were systematically, industrially, gruesomely murdered in the worst genocidal crime against humanity, the earnest, global, unison cry was, ‘Never again’.

Is the UK Prime Minister two-faced?

• Remembering yesterday's victims, but forgetting today's?

Yesterday was Holocaust Memorial Day, and UK Prime Minister, David Cameron, announced in Parliament that a new Holocaust memorial would be built next to Parliament.

Danish police to seize refugees' belongings

The Danish Parliament has approved a controversial new law that allows police to force refugees to hand over their valuables.

Why we must never abandon human rights

This morning I saw for the first time a short 1950's French documentary screened at ‘The Cinema and Human Rights' film festival at Birkbeck University, London.  

‘Night and Fog’ is shocking, harrowing and true.  It reveals a gnawing glimpse of the horror of the Holocaust.  This film needs to be seen, preserved and re-shown to every future generation, so that we never forget.