George Suchett-Kaye, Author at Uncommon Ground

Mutilation, Misery and Abandonment: Life in Syria

January 9, 2017 George Suchett-Kaye 0

Everyone remembers the horrifying picture of a 3-year-old Syrian boy’s corpse found on a beach. The scene epitomised the situation for ordinary people in Syria. But the boy and others

Double Consciousness and Foreigners…Lost in Translation

January 8, 2017 George Suchett-Kaye 0

On 23rd January, the Dutch centre-right Prime Minister Mark Rutte wrote an open letter which was widely published in the national press. The Netherlands is considered by many to be

Father Christmas Burned As a “Heretic”

December 29, 2016 George Suchett-Kaye 0

Following an incident in which an effigy of Father Christmas was hanged and burned by members of the Catholic church, the French anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss wrote an article entitled “Le

When Democracy Threatens…Democracy

November 24, 2016 George Suchett-Kaye 0

I published the following post on a French website, Agoravox, which at first glance, seemed rather like the present one. I wanted to share my views on the dangers of

“My God Hates You…But I Don’t” – The Problem of Intolerance

November 3, 2016 George Suchett-Kaye 0

Religious followers, particularly fundamentalists, seem to think that they have the divine right to enforce their convictions on others by any means. One of the most important philosophical challenges we