Monthly Newsletter – June 2025

Dear TalkMatters Supporters, I hope you are doing as well as can be expected during these challenging and uncertain times. Telling new audiences about the initiatives that continue working in war times Since back from Israel, I’ve been speaking to new audiences...

Monthly Newsletter – May 2025

Dear TalkMatters Supporters, Home now after 3 weeks in Israel. Bright sunshine surrounded by the darkness of pain and loss. Both Peoples traumatised by what is going on around them – everyone knows someone who is dead or dying. Peace – a word hardly worth...

Monthly Newsletter – April 2025

Dear TalkMatters Supporters, Do hope everyone is keeping as well as possible and that you have enjoyed the Eid, Passover and Easter holidays. So here we are again. Another newsletter and another month has gone by with no sign of improvement. Against this gloomy...

Monthly Newsletter – March 2025

Dear TalkMatters Supporters, Never ending sadness and fear. The uncertainty continues. What will happen next nobody knows. But in many ways I am lucky. Inspired by the leaders of the initiatives that TalkMatters supports, I have a huge incentive to speak out about...

Monthly Newsletter – February 2025

Dear TalkMatters Supporters This is a heart-breaking time – the brutality all around is hard to bear. When will it ever end? Going round and round in my head are Bob Dylan’s words ‘the answer, my friend, is blowin’ in the wind, the answer is...

Monthly Newsletter – January 2025

Dear TalkMatters Supporters What a start to the year. Bitter-sweet – Hamas has now released 7 women hostages in return for 290 Palestinian prisoners, the promise of more hostages exchanged for more prisoners, an uncertain cease-fire in Gaza with people returning...