Carmen Gómez is a columnist with Panorama.
She is an actress, known for Dr. Watson and the Darkwater Hall Mystery (1974), Doctor Who (1963) and The Aphrodite Inheritance (1979).
04/09/2019 - 09:37
Loss of women’s free voice
The freedom of speech that Pope Benedict and Pope Francis had so often advocated, has had to be abandoned in the matter of a magazine which was launched in 2012 called “Women, Church, World,” which comes in a monthly supplement in the Vatican daily paper. Read more
30/08/2019 - 09:38
There are trees that are known to have roots that sometimes fuse with those of other members of its same species, creating a subterranean intersection of exchange between individual trees, to create a super organism. This is what we have been part of all along as members of the EU with the UK; part of supposedly, a civilized family of nations with a purpose, and goals which included promoting peace; breaking down barriers to trade and borders; promoting inclusion and combating discrimination; championing environmental protection etc. What went wrong? Study shows that when a tree is cut down and only the stump remains, it nevertheless continues to be a participating member of the local super organism. Read more
30/08/2019 - 09:38
There are trees that are known to have roots that sometimes fuse with those of other members of its same species, creating a subterranean intersection of exchange between individual trees, to create a super organism. This is what we have been part of all along as members of the EU with the UK; part of supposedly, a civilized family of nations with a purpose, and goals which included promoting peace; breaking down barriers to trade and borders; promoting inclusion and combating discrimination; championing environmental protection etc. What went wrong? Study shows that when a tree is cut down and only the stump remains, it nevertheless continues to be a participating member of the local super organism. Read more
23/08/2019 - 10:20
Thomas Jefferson once said that “the happiness of every individual is now acknowledged to be the only legitimate object of government.” This may well have been true when this great man uttered such words; today, however, it may sound like an illusive dream in some corners of the world, particularly in Hong Kong, where its citizens; primarily its young; are prepared to demonstrate for their freedoms and rights, to the point of putting their lives at risk. Read more
21/08/2019 - 09:40
With people like the CBF about, we will never achieve our goals on the question of our seas
Last Wednesday evening, on Newswatch, we witnessed once again, a high ranking officer, in this case the Commander British Forces Cdr Tim Henry, take us a step backwards. He was very genuinely asked by the Head of News, if he recognized and understood our anxieties over the constant illegal incursions into out British Gibraltar territorial Waters, to which in his reply, he not only went back to the old and well worn chestnut of “safe passage;” but furthermore thought there was nothing unusual about these sort of goings on. Read more
16/08/2019 - 09:15
The media loves to have its fun and sometimes enjoys presenting Ministers as inept and comical. But there are those of us who believe that in general; putting aside the quixotic and the eccentric; including one such as Boris Johnson of whom so much derogatory character description has filled the columns of newspapers and political chat; it can be said that there is always a great deal of method behind the apparent, shall we say, quirkiness. Some may even venture to consider they have not come across a man with better motives, for the trouble he causes. Read more
14/08/2019 - 09:40
Living close to heaven
The more I look to out hometown and see the infrastructure that has been, and is being laid down for our youth to prosper and thrive, makes me realize that they live in absolute heaven! When once our talented youth had to look to their families primarily to provide for them to go abroad and learn their craft; when many would have given anything to be able to go to university, or as is known today as Uni; let alone their preferred choice of university; this now is a thing of the past! Read more
29/07/2019 - 09:51
Climate change is without doubt the hot topic of our times and something I have dedicated time to in previous articles. It has been said that in the last decades, we have done more damage when we have known what we were doing, than we did all these many years ago when we didn’t have a clue. Read more
12/07/2019 - 09:59
The EU; an organisation which we had held in high regard and notions of upstanding Europeans, with the highest set of values and principles; much to our chagrin, we have found out that it’s no more ethical than an Old Boys Network! As the French politician Djordre Kuzmanic puts it “those who believe in Democracy should aim at tearing the EU down, not reforming it!” Read more
05/07/2019 - 10:25
Having seen recently on the news, the disdain and lack of respect with which the EU leaders treated the Prime Minister Theresa May at the G Summit, their behaviour towards us in the recent past does not surprise me anymore. Their loutish manner at the photo call was a disgrace; so much for their European standing. It was most definitely a brush off in the worst possible taste that I have witnessed in years. It denoted an air of bullishness come brusqueness, born out of a deep dislike for a woman who, after all, tried so hard to appease them. Read more
