Tony Robinson

This week in England and Wales, the Home Office published new statutory guidance for Domestic Abuse Related Death Reviews, the process previously known as Domestic Homicide Reviews. The change sounds bureaucratic, but it reflects something much more significant. A death…

In the aftermath of the attacks of 11 September 2001, George W. Bush famously told the US Congress that America’s enemies “hate our freedoms”: freedom of religion, freedom of speech, freedom to vote, assemble and disagree. Those freedoms matter enormously.…

The sovereignty dispute is usually framed as a choice between Britain and Argentina. But as the Sea Lion project moves towards production, another question has become unavoidable: should hundreds of millions of barrels of new oil be extracted at all?…

In October 1985, under enormous pressure from other Commonwealth governments, Margaret Thatcher reluctantly accepted limited sanctions against apartheid South Africa, including restrictions on imports of Krugerrand gold coins. Asked by the BBC what Britain had conceded, she replied “Absolutely minute.”…

Violence is easy to recognise when someone is being beaten, shot or killed. It becomes more difficult when nobody is holding a weapon. Poverty, discrimination, exploitation and repression can restrict a human life just as effectively, although they do so…

A Pressenza model prepared with the use of AI tools over 5 days assesses political leaders on strength, wisdom and kindness across 12 policy areas. Each policy area is judged by whether political action expands or contracts the field of…

Freedom, intentionality and the human future Pressenza has always defined itself through a commitment to peace, nonviolence, humanism and non-discrimination. This August, with a new three-month course in Nonviolent Journalism about to begin, that commitment leads back to a question…

Between inheritance and renewal in a world marked by violence, fragmentation and spiritual exhaustion At a certain point, every movement must ask itself a difficult question: does it still exist as a living force in history, or has it become,…

For over 200 days since October 7th, the brutal oppression of Palestinians in their homelands has been brought into the awareness of a previously unaware western population Western governments’ desperate attempts to support Israel’s genocidal leaders reveal their own authoritarian…

Pressenza is saddened to learn of the passing away at the age of 56 of Montserrat Prieto, a member of the Humanist organization, World without Wars and Violence, since its inception in the 90s and one of the key members…