Women in Politics
The UK to date has only had three female Prime Ministers: Margaret Thatcher, Theresa May and (very briefly) Liz Truss
Read moreMagdalena Williams came to the U.K. from Vienna in 1970 to attend her mother’s wedding and chose to make the U.K. her home.
She undertook several career changes until her retirement in 2016 from the then Foreign and Commonwealth Office. She started as a teacher of Hungarian and German to diplomats and finished in the Nigeria Team which was inter alia looking at how to defeat Boko Haram. Before joining the FCO, she worked as a psychologist in hospitals and ran creative therapy workshops in prisons and clinics.
Her interest in writing was first raised when she decided to research her family history and leave a record of how her mother, the daughter of a landed gentry family in Hungary fleeing Communism, first to Vienna then Germany, ended up in rural Kent.
Magdalena is an ardent Remain campaigner, a Green Party member and she will proudly be forever European.
The UK to date has only had three female Prime Ministers: Margaret Thatcher, Theresa May and (very briefly) Liz Truss
Read moreContrary to far-right populist views, migration is essential. In Nomad Century, Gaia Vince discusses migration and climate change
Read moreNHS suffering since Brexit has carried on due to underfunding, staff shortages and increasing costs of vital medicines and equipment
Read moreThe Garden Museum is housed in the church of St Mary-at-Lambeth, containing the burial place of John Tradescant, an early...
Read moreEight years of social conflict, with fights over abortion, rule of law, and awful relations with the EU have eroded support...
Read morePeter was right: the time has come to campaign for rejoining the EU. So National Rejoin March II will take...
Read moreOpen Society Foundation under Alex Soros is shifting funding priorities of his father’s foundation to the East
Read moreAs refugees are threatened with deportation to Rwanda, memories of becoming a child refugee in 1956 keep coming back
Read moreWhile the project would undoubtedly exacerbate existing economic and social divisions in the UK, the root cause of these lies...
Read moreMEPs want to combat "illiteracy" about EU citizens' rights; ignorance of this in the UK might have played a role...
Read moreBread has symbolised good nourishment for centuries..It was the staple food in Palestine at the time of Jesus, and still...
Read moreReminiscences about travelling across Europe by train in the author's childhood and teenage years, and how train travel has changed
Read moreTravelling by train with dogs is not always straightforward. The UK is lenient, but other networks impose different conditions and...
Read moreBritain now has 13,793 fewer pubs and other licensed premises than it had three years ago with more pubs at...
Read moreThere is a need to improve the modalities of European democracy, especially in the areas of citizenship, parliamentarism and participation.
Read moreA dog lover gives her views on the increase in reported dog attacks and the need for owners to take...
Read moreAn account of the rescue of a sparrow chick which has fallen from its nest gives insight into the plight...
Read moreThe expansion of ULEZ to the whole of London has aroused opposition from those who can’t afford a compliant vehicle
Read moreThe author shines a light on the rejection of EU values by Hungary and its populist President, Orbán Viktor and...
Read moreMagdalena Williams looks at the significance of the Central European University for democracy in today's world and Viktor Orbán's opposition.
Read moreIn her article on anti-fascism in the UK, Magdalena Williams examines the sporadic emergence of extreme-right politics and opposition to...
Read more2023's Eurovision competition was held in Liverpool on behalf of last year's winner, Ukraine, because of the continuing armed conflict...
Read moreMagdalena investigates the local street parties in Croydon which formed part of the neighbourhood's coronation celebrations.
Read moreWhat is depression? Who suffers from it? Is there a cure? In this personal article Magdalena Williams confronts all these...
Read moreIn her review of this book about life in Hungary Magdalena compares Marion Merricks description with her own reminiscences of...
Read moreSaturday 25 March 2023 is National Day for Rejoin. It will see numerous events decrying Brexit and extolling the virtues...
Read moreMagdalena Williams introduces us to Jane Kenyon and her ‘Girls Out Loud’ programme of personal development for adolescent girls
Read moreOn International Women's Day we consider Japanese pianist and feminist Hiroko Ishimoto, whose CD "Pioneers" features compositions by women
Read moreMagdalena Williams considers the hidden life of Professor Cecilia Payne Gaposchkin who first discovered what stars are made of
Read moreParents' and mothers' rights are compared between the former GDR and modern unified Germany, with a mention of the situation...
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