The title of this blog is a play on the classic Ray Bradbury novel ‘Something Wicked This Way Comes’. Disney’s film adaptation – one of their greatest ever and least known cinematic features, stars the brilliantly cast and sinister ringmaster of a travelling circus coming to small-town America, played by Jonathon Pryce and also featuring [...]

Race, Community and a Deafening Silence  Laurence H Grant - Director and Co-Founder Grant Moar Communities This week’s sentencing of nine men from Rochdale and Oldham for grooming and sexual assault of children has resulted in some considerable nervousness if not hand-wringing over the impact of the crimes upon community cohesion or at the very least [...]

ICOCO’s ‘At Ease With Each Other’ conference on community cohesion which took place Monday 23rd April in central London was, I believe, a step forward on the road to plain speaking and at looking at all sides of the race and immigration debate.   The events keynote speech was given by the Secretary of State [...]

The recent Liam Stacey case where a member of the public was jailed for 56 days for use of abusive, racist and threatening language has raised many questions about the emergence of Twitter and other forms of social media in a stable and cohesive society.  We clearly live in an information age unlike any previously experienced   with [...]