Dr Gemma Beckley is a director and teacher with The Meditation Trust, a British charity working to make Transcendental Meditation (TM) — which originated in India and gained fame in
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By William J. Furney The Chinese authorities have created a dystopian hellscape on a staggering scale in Xinjiang. Uyghurs, Kazakhs and other Muslim minorities face crimes against humanity and other
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By William J. Furney It’s all about speed and today’s crop of jetliners just don’t measure up. So says new US aviation firm Boom Supersonic. The Denver-based company’s mission is
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By William J. Furney I became famous in and around my village in Ireland in recent years for running along its scenic country roads; people stopped me in shops and
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By William J. Furney The pandemic we’re still embroiled in, more than a year on, is this century’s “Chernobyl moment”, says a report into the global health catastrophe published this
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By William J. Furney The past year has been tumultuous in every aspect of our lives — including between the sheets. Faced with long and dreary lockdown hours together when
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By William J. Furney We had an hour, in March and then, this week, a day. To save an imperiled planet that so far is our only home in the
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By William J. Furney The supposedly most powerful nation on the planet cannot stop its people from being killed en masse by rifles, pistols, assault rifles, submachine guns and a
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By William J. Furney Using fingers and thumbs to bash out messages on our phones may soon seem archaic and even, one day, primitive, if spaceman Elon Musk gets his
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By William J. Furney Almost everyone agrees it’s a case of when, not if, another catastrophic pandemic will erupt, killing millions more and bringing the world to a shuddering halt
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