For those who do not dwell on the cruel and barbarous actions of the Stasi, what is now often forgotten is that the GDR also represented an effort to build a completely new and egalitarian society. Gender equality and equal pay for men and women were part of the GDR from the very beginning. The...
A quick look back at my “alma mater’ (1980). This was filmed 3 years after I had left in 1983, and just before this system was abolished due to abuse and cruelty. For any fellow inmates wanting to say hello, I was in Bentley Dorm. They wouldn’t even let me have my mobile phone,...
62 hours of pure joy; for little more than a large whiskey. 62 hours of not wasting precious funds on booze, to be told; “Vapers Not Welcome”. Is it any wonder that a record number of so called “pubs”, closed last month? Truth is, there are hardly any real “boozers” left – ever since John...
Dear Editor, As was to be expected, there has been much written in recent weeks concerning the recently imposed ban on smoking in public places, and I would like to take the opportunity through your excellent, unbiased and campaigning newspaper, to say how much my life, and the the lives of my friends and family...