UK PM Starmer apologises in parliament for state role in forced adoptions
UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer has issued a formal apology in parliament for the state's role in decades of forced adoptions involving unmarried mothers and their babies. He described the policy as a stain on the country's history and said the government was deeply and profoundly sorry to everyone affected. The apology comes after years of pressure from campaigners and a parliamentary committee that had already called for an official response.According to the material presented in parliament, the system operated between 1949 and 1976 and involved the government, Christian churches and other institutions. An estimated 185,000 children were forcibly adopted... [Continue Reading]
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Fear the Shia, Arm the Sunnis: The Uncomfortable Numbers Behind America’s War Narrative
“When fear is managed carefully enough, a nation can be taught to look away from the blood on the floor and stare instead at the shadow on the wall.” A friend of mine, whose name I will not reveal because he asked me not to, sat across from me over dinner and placed a question on the table that would not leave me alone. He was born into a Muslim Shia background, and for the angle of this article, that detail matters, not because I wish to reduce a man to a sect, but because sect has become one of... [Continue Reading]

