Actors can find adopting the mask of a character a welcome escape from their own lives. But for Pandora Clifford — actress and mother — there was no hiding place portraying the dignified and strong mother in a new stage version of The Railway Children. She tells how it forced her to challenge her own ideas of motherhood.
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Just be glad that you're at home, all snug and warm.
The generosity shown by an anonymous woman at a store in Grand Rapids has triggered a wave of Christmas spirit altruism which is sweeping across the United States
The EU summit of 9 December saw a spectacular falling out between the UK and the 26 other members of the EU. But this masked a much more important issue, argues James Meadway of the new economics foundation - the terrible nature of the deal itself.
TWU contributor Eddy Canfor-Dumas was recently invited by the Commonwealth Secretariat to help monitor the presidential election in The Gambia, West Africa.
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