National dialogues operate outside the permanent institutions of government; moving beyond the Westminster bubble to listen to the communities who feel disconnected from government.

 The question now is not only how to respond to recent conflict on the border, but to address the underlying causes that produced these disturbing events. 

There is talk of ghost towns if UK defence jobs are threatened, but are these the only ghost towns that should concern us?

Britain needs a different kind of security that looks at the root causes of violence. The need for jobs mustn't be used to perpetuate the powerful lobby that is the defence industry.

US-led war games may look like a defensive manoeuver to us, but from North Korea‘s perspective they do not look the same.

Tony Blair told Chilcot Saddam Hussein was, “a man to whom a last chance to do right is just a further opportunity to do wrong. He is blind to reason.”