Tuesday 13 September 2011

Seema's Jang


Seema’s novel is Svera’s song

Reading a novel by an author you know personally is fraught with dangers; all the more so when the novel in question is the author’s first. So Mark Cantrell approached Seema Gill’s Svera Jang with a certain sense of trepidation. What he discovered is a beautifully crafted novel about one woman’s resilience – and the strength of the human spirit

Saturday 3 September 2011

Free Labour


Free labour anyone?
Towards a very British gulag

Work for free? You must be joking! Sadly no. The British Government is working on normalising the practice of forced labour and it begins with an easy target – the unemployed. So much for an end to so-called welfare dependency, why should employers hire when they can take a free ride at the taxpayers' expense…

By Mark Cantrell

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