Elie Wiesel is a Romanian Jew who survived Hitler’s concentration camps. He became a respected writer and campaigner against genocide and global injustices. In 1999 he spoke at the White House reflecting on the passing century. In a powerful and touching speech drawing from his own experiences, he confronted the ‘perils of indifference’ towards suffering.
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David Cameron has recently unveiled a plan that would allow people to make a conscious decision to “opt-in” to adult only and explicit websites, therefore creating a way to protect children from pornography. However, it could be argued that the more sensible option would be to “opt-out”, as pornography will never be completely obliterated from our surroundings, even if it’s forbidden on the internet.
As a plot by Iran to murder the Saudi Arabian Ambassador in New York is revealed, it could be that this is just the event the US needed to mark a turning point in their fight against Iran’s belligerence. Should the alleged plot be confirmed, this will put the US in a much stronger position, in particular with Saudi Arabia and its neighbours.
On 4 April 1968 Martin Luther King Jr. was gunned down and killed by a white supremacist. That evening Senator Robert F. Kennedy, on the campaign trail for the democratic presidential nomination, addressed a majority black crowd in Indianapolis calling for compassion, love and understanding in the wake of the murder.
After a bitterly disappointing defeat to France, England’s rugby team heads home with questions to answer about performance on the pitch and misdemeanours off it.
Financial stability, community engagement and cultural development all factor into the complex question as to how museums should be funded, and how freely accessible to the public they should be.