anniversary

As a journalist, I find strength and security in the reassuring power and influence of the written and spoken word. In the words of Seamus Heaney: “Between my finger and my thumb The squat pen rests: snug as a gun.” But at a time of Muslim bans, Brexit, and governmental failings to tackle the on-going refugee crisis, the pen seems to have distorted from a valiant sword, a weapon to defend, into a dagger in the back.