Super Bowl world news. Sunday. February 11th. Confirmed Video footage shows a Palestinian mother and her child lying on a street in the Sheikh Radwan…
What does it take to vote for a leader whose policy is to starve a million children? One pattern I see repeated in many of…
Today is Monday, 23 rd January. Here’s a snapshot of world news on this day. Who did what. Actions and likely consequences. Nebal Farsakh, a…
The narrative of events following October 7 has been led by Israel, endorsed by Biden and other Western leaders, then repeated by MSM. From the…
On World Hunger.By Rachel Corrie, aged 10 (1990) I’m here for other children.I’m here because I care.I’m here because children everywhere are suffering and because…
Released December 1st, 2023.Jacks Day by Logan Twain ft. Taylor911Listen: YouTube / The song will be played live on YouTube on the first night of…
Knossos was settled around 7000 BC, the oldest known settlement in Crete. Initially a hamlet of 25–50 people who lived in wattle and daub huts,…
Recorded in California between January and August 2023, DEEP FOCUS contains seven new tracks of Andrew Brel meditation music. Deep FocusLa PonderosaThinking MeditationEmotionVisiting WellnessHeartwarmingLo-Fi Calm…
Jani Allan (11 September 1952 – 25 July 2023) Isobel grew up across the road from where I grew up in Bryanston. Eaton Avenue. With…
A man, John Lennon, inspired by a woman, observed ‘Woman is the nigger of the world.” Women, like the enslaved, have suffered grievous exploitation by…
21st June 2023 would have been Helen’s 88th birthday. She passed just two months shy of that landmark, on March 19th. I was moved by…
When I left South Africa for my new life in England as a young musician with long hair and no money, Mandela was still in…
Anton Rupert died in his sleep – peacefully – at 89. Born like many others who occupy a place on the list of great South…
In 1985 I was introduced to Kaveh Golestan who was at that time spending six months of each year embedded with Iranian troops covering the…
WHO LIES WINS is a true life crime-story set in Britain’s family-court in 2013. A family-law mother removes her four-year old boy from his father’s…
My Monday night out in Long Beach, June 21st, 2022. The Terrace Theater. Its a 50 minute drive up Coast Highway from home to the…
First published in 2011, The Emergency Bouzouki Player has introduced me to a world of new friends who share my views on War and the…
In 1984 I remember hearing Bob Geldof explain Ethiopia on TV. Like many other African-born people at that time I was surprised by how enthusiastically pop…
CALM is on / AMAZON / APPLE MUSIC / SPOTIFY / YouTube CALM is available on Audible, audio book with a Calm Sleep Guided meditation…
Published: 15 May, 2021 Watching American ordnance blow up buildings in Gaza today I am reminded; I have been watching reportage from Palestine for most…
Karen Woodall wrote “I am the Alienator” in 2014. You can buy her book UNDERSTANDING PARENTAL ALIENATION HEREParental Alienation is child abuse. The pathology of…
“Words can’t express the anger” a friend wrote, while watching the opening morning of the Chauvin trial. Perhaps they can. About six months after Chauvin’s…
I have long been fascinated by the version of capitalism that allows amassing of multiple billion dollar fortunes. Especially when the the small handful of…
Facebook reminders reminded me where I was 20 years ago on this very day. Twenty years ago today I was taking this photo of my…
“Buyer beware” is my advice to any parent contemplating separation by family court judgment. Family Court is an adversarial legal process heard in Court rooms…
Press Release. 11 October, 2020 Letters to Byron began in 2013 when I started writing weekly letters to my four-year-old son, caught in the crossfire…
This archived page is the final ‘Letter to Byron’. The live blog is no longer active. The content of Letters to Byron is available in…