Uncommon Ground Contributor Ivor Jones

Ivor Jones

Ivor is a blogger and post-grad student at Brighton Journalist Works.

Articles by Ivor Jones:

The Siege of Aleppo Has No Easy Answers

November 28, 2016 | by | 0 Comments
Eighty-two men, women and children shot on the spot. Homes and buildings bombed to smithereens to create a landscape reminiscent of Dresden. Innocents blasted into oblivion by indiscriminate ‘air strikes’ or trapped under tonnes of rubble. Children freezing to death in the Syrian winter cold, their young minds shaped irreparably by the trauma of war. […] Read more

Trump’s Victory is a Disaster for American Common Sense and Decency

November 9, 2016 | by | 0 Comments
Things weren’t supposed to be this way. Hillary Rodham Clinton looked as if she was treading a sure path to the White House. All major pollsters and newspapers were projecting that America waking up to their first female President-elect was all but inevitable. Trump had simply fought too divisive a campaign to win over enough […] Read more

An Intolerance of Democracy Has Been Unleashed Post-Brexit

July 27, 2016 | by | 0 Comments
The bigotry a number of Brits have shown towards migrants and ethnic minorities in the weeks since the EU referendum has been truly shocking. People have been shouted at in the street, they’ve been told to leave the country; pro-Brexit cards have been distributed around one community declaring “No more Polish Vermin”; racist graffiti has been […] Read more