Justice v. Vengeance – A Work in Progress?
What is the difference between justice and vengeance? Does it really matter? Won’t vengeance redress the karmic balance…
Category: justice
The Magnificent Self-Made Person
Everyone is familiar with the concept of the ‘self-made’ person – the man or woman who pulls themselves up…
Reverse Robin Hood – Rob the Poor and Give to the Rich
A couple of months ago I posted this quote from John Berger – The poverty of our century…
The Most Natural Thing In the World?
As the daughter of a nurse I had some vague idea of what a fistula might be (my…
A Proud Legacy
Yesterday an Irish journalist died. She was 54. Her name was Mary Raftery and while she didn’t live…
I am Spartacus…
In their book, Half the Sky, Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl Wudunn tell the story of an Indian neighbourhood –…
Justice
What is justice? It’s a hard concept to pin down and even harder to put into effect. But…
A Poor Outlook…
The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before,…
Not Splitting Hairs
It’s not splitting hairs to say that actions speak louder than words. Or that talk is cheap, Or…
Butterfly Effects…
In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning…