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 | Sep 6, 2024 | Human Rights, Politics, Women’s Rights
A child early to walking and talking and, it could be said, early to finding my writer’s voice, in that I wrote my first short story collection when I was five or six – see On the Shelf podcast – my need to express myself creatively has continued throughout my life,...
by Maggie Ling | Feb 15, 2024 | Health, Politics, War
Last year brought 75th birthday ‘celebrations’ for the NHS, the state of Israel, and for me. The last British troops left Haifa four days after I almost killed my mother, the home-birth of her second child suddenly a medical emergency, our hospital discharge coming a...
by Maggie Ling | Jan 10, 2023 | Politics, Women’s Rights
Christmas almost upon us, the cold snap coming to an end, shopping for spices in the fabulous market of this fine city, the friendly stallholder asked me how I was. A dangerous question to a writer partial to telling it like it is. A bit down, I answered… voice...
