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...
by Maggie Ling | Aug 15, 2022 | History, Politics
There’s a girl, her curly ginger hair pulled to one side with a turquoise slide, wailing in the cloakroom, tears trailing down her freckled flushed cheeks. Beyond distraught, she’s on the verge of hysteria. A year older, having clocked up my fourteenth year that May,...
