Long-term, Brexit won't matter, but for now the Tories are executing a decision they made on my behalf. It's not a decision I would

On the relevance of religious practice without preaching, building a home away from home and the miracles that happen when you achieve peace

Everyone should learn a second language as language changes the way we think; speaking just one makes us men from Plato's cave metaphor.

British Sign Language has its own words, syntax and grammar. English is a foreign language to BSL users making a lot of information inaccess

When I came back to Hong Kong, my Chinese was no longer current. It was like being in a sci-fi movie where things look familiar, but everyth

Working abroad comes with dilemmas migrants rarely discuss openly from worrying about aging parents to hesitating about starting own family.

We treat art as “less than,” though it teaches us to live and work together, with writer/director Dario Knight.

Galicia has changed so much. When I talk about my childhood, people think I'm from another era, on Galician essence with Maria Martinez.

Half-Thai-half-American and native to Amsterdam despite a lost Dutch accent, Jeryn March talks about being mixed-race and running a hotel.

A Japanese asks different questions than the English way, on learning English and adjusting to Japan, with Emi Itoh.

Illness is not discussed in the Asian community. Whatever jeopardises an ideal stays hidden, with advocate Trishna Bharadia.

A girl got a job to fill the time between leaving school and getting married. If you didn't bag a decent husband early, future was bleak.

Our problems require global action. Can there be global action if “globals” don’t live “local” reality and the "locals" are overlooked?

We wait for black boys to trip and fall, and then we say, but of course, yet we help others get up and keep going, with Khaya Rowland.

I thought long and hard about responsibility. Am I responsible for the country being unsafe if I leave instead of trying to make it better?

Berlusconi didn’t help Italy. Trump won't help the US. But we got interested in the frustrations of the common people. We’ve been jolted.

Politicians in Brussels are out of touch with their home countries and citizens who don’t want to relocate, with a European, Silvia Schmidt.

Speaking Armenian is what makes an Armenian. Few Armenians still speak their language; what happens when it dies? With Arto Belekdanian.

I hate myself for this, but when I go to Florence and this Chinese girl – Italian of Chinese heritage – speaks perfect Italian, I go, wait,

British English is an imperial language; it’s got associations with wealth and power and it still dominates the cultural and public life in