“Be generous with your praise and considerate with your criticism”
What ever I have been involved in be it sport, the arts, politics, community or writing for The AIMN I have tried to adhere to […]
Your Say
Fresh start – Let’s wipe the slate clean
I think there would be many people who would agree that to return to ‘normal’ – ie to try to pick up the threads and […]
Planning for the future must start NOW
At present the whole world is preoccupied with a major pandemic which has turned life on its head. It is necessarily distracting all of us […]
What does it mean to be a man?
If you ask one million men that question, more likely than not you will get one million different answers. Nothing wrong with that. When I […]
Stir Crazy with Orwell
By Graham Nowland Being confined under the tyranny of COVID-19 makes you stir crazy and people are warning mental health is going to be an […]
The man who was nothing
Our articles on The AIMN attract not only wonderful responses from those who comment here, but also through emails or messages on our Facebook page. […]
Proof of Rape
Apart from gang rape, rape is a crime to which there are usually only two witnesses – the parties involved. Even when the victim presents […]
COVID-19 child care crisis
By Melissa Underwood I am writing to request your urgent assistance to ensure child care remains viable and means tested. Families that continue to earn […]
A Serf in the time of plague …
Greetings, and salutations on vellum even, to my fellow manorial slaves. There be plague in the realm! Just did my six-monthly visit to the village […]
We need a Brave New World that cares!
There are many who are better qualified than am I to try to change the world, while we have a brief moment in time to […]
And then there was light
As a long-time agnostic, I remain unconvinced that there is an omniscient, omnipresent being, responsible for creating the world and over-sighting all that takes place […]
Pride goes before a fall
No one who becomes a leader of a country is expected to know everything. What they are expected to know is when they are out […]
The Chinese Empire
Over recent years, it has seemed that China has been entrenching strategic bases in increasingly far flung areas. I am not an expert in these […]
Keeping a safe distance
Maybe I am being hyper-critical of the Prime Minister but I wonder whether his desire to be totally in charge is over-reach, given that he […]
The shopping spree and a 12-pack prize
There were the experienced women of the blue rinse set all manoeuvring their trolleys with gifted skills. Then there were the men whose driving skills […]