WE often hear about the Northern Powerhouse in terms of trains and technology, business and brokerage. For the first time a new report evidences why and how culture is the quickest and most under-used lever for levelling up the North today.
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“It was the best of times; it was the worst of times.” This opening line of Charles Dickens’s
A Tale of Two Cities is germane to the state of Jewish-Arab relations this year. This has been a period in which, on the international level, Israel and a number of Arab nations established formal relations, and on the internal level, Israel’s Arab minority seemed to be heading towards full integration within society. Israeli Arabs garnered respect and appreciation for their prominent role in combating COVID and by their outpouring of empathy and tangible support in response to the tragedy at Meron. Suddenly, now, this has all been overshadowed by extensive rioting and attacks agai