Impactful stories

This Friday, May 15th, marks the anniversary of the founding of the city of Las Vegas and the opening of the first-ever McDonald’s restaurant. If those events, in 1905 and 1940, saw the birth of something unmistakably American, there’s another anniversary on the same day that belongs to the entire world. In 1993, the United Nations General Assembly passed a resolution marking the 15th of May as a date to be celebrated each year as the International Day of Families. It’s a ce

Over the past decade a Hungarian man, now in his early forties, has attracted attention for converting to Judaism, beginning to eat Kosher food and observing the Sabbath. He’s also been circumcised. There’s nothing unusual about this until we consider what he was doing in the decade before. Csanad Szegedi joined Hungary’s far-right Jobbik Party as a teenager, became its Vice President at twenty-three and in 2009 became its loudest voice in the European Parliament when aged ju

A thought for the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination In the years following World War Two, Britain’s labour shortage led to Commonwealth citizens in the Caribbean being invited to come to this country and build new lives as British citizens. Led to believe they would be welcome, almost half a million women, men and children made the journey. In 1948, the liner Empire Windrush brought just over 1,000 passengers from Jamaica, and the ship gave its na