by Maggie Ling | Aug 11, 2026 | Creativity, Human Rights, Writing
Writing stories at an early age, words were my playmates, spending time in their company, getting to know them, to understand them, was pure pleasure. Several decades later I spoke of my childish delight in Once upon a time . . . my first On the Shelf podcast. The...
by Maggie Ling | Jul 20, 2026 | Human Rights, Politics
I’m not a great sports lover. Consider boxing cannot be considered a ‘sport’ by any sane, thinking individual; and certain rugby only receives the respect it doesn’t deserve because it was nurtured in a private school: institutions guaranteed to fuck up boys’ minds,...
by Maggie Ling | Aug 11, 2025 | Climate, History, Human Rights, Politics
High above the Central Court of England and Wales, commonly known as The Old Bailey, standing tall and straight, a sword pointing to the heavens in her right hand, a pair of scales hanging from her left, her feet resting on the globe beneath them, her spiky crown...
by Maggie Ling | Jan 30, 2025 | Climate, History, Human Rights, Politics
In a time of universal deceit, George Orwell may have said, telling the truth is a revolutionary act. Having found this quote on a website, not Wikipedia, a fact-checked biography, a memoir by the man himself, or in my well-thumbed Penguin Dictionary of Quotations, I...
by Maggie Ling | Dec 18, 2024 | Climate, History
My childhood was spent in rural East Anglia: the 1950s and early 60s when the post-war push for food production encouraged arable farmers to invest in bigger machines to harvest bigger crops; and bigger fields meant the removal of hedges. ‘Grubbing out’, thus...
