Helen McCue

England

Writer at Freelance

Contributing Editor at woman&home

Serial Entrepreneur and Leading UK Candle & Fragrance Manufacturer for Brands Worldwide. CEO at Moments Candles co

Articles

Chefs like Gordon Ramsay love HexClad's tri-ply cookware – but this is what I wish I'd known before I invested in it myself

1 month ago | inkl.com | Helen McCue

Buying a new pan set can be a trying experience. How do you decide which brand to choose, let alone choose between materials, price points, and non-stick capability claims? Every shopper is looking for something that will last in their kitchen. So, as Ideal Home's Kitchen Appliances Editor, it's been my mission to find the best saucepan sets and pans for an induction hob that do just that.
Israel has Form and much of it is brutal

1 month ago | johnmenadue.com | Helen McCue

Albert Einstein once said that Palestinians (Jews, Christians and Muslims alike) lived in peace and worked together before the European Jews were sent to Palestine. He also said that if Jews could not co-exist peacefully with Arabs then we have learnt nothing in 2000 years of civilisation.
Israels most right wing government: Who are they?

1 month ago | johnmenadue.com | Helen McCue

What do we know about the new Israeli government apart from the now much touted the most right wing government in Israel history? And what does this new government mean for Israel, Palestine and the so called two state solution? The new government is headed by Netanyahu, who is presently on trial for allegedly accepting bribes, breach of trust and fraud.
Haaretz: Israel is now a formal, full-fledged apartheid regime

1 month ago | johnmenadue.com | Helen McCue

Following yet another Israeli Settler killing spree and the annexation of the West Bank, Israel is now a formal, full-fledged apartheid regime, writes leading Isreali newspaper Haaretz. Sundays attack on the Palestinian town of Huwarra was the most violent of such settler attacks in decades. Located near Nablus in the Occupied Palestinian Territory of the West Bank there are reports of 30 homes, 40 cars and other buildings, schools and mosques being torched.
No water, no electricity, no oxygen, no way to stay alive

1 month ago | johnmenadue.com | Helen McCue

Doctors, nurses, patients and thousands of internally displaced Palestinians are being bombed, terrorised and held hostage in Al Shifa hospital, one of Gaza biggest hospitals. There is no water, no electricity, no oxygen and 37 pre-term babies are slowly dying due to lack of oxygen.
How can you sleep at night Anthony?

1 month ago | johnmenadue.com | Helen McCue

Can you sleep at night knowing that your extremist Israeli mates have killed 3,000 children over the last three weeks? That is one child killed every 13 minutes in Gaza. And that doesn’t include the estimated 1,000 little souls laying dead under rubble that distraught fathers cant rescue. Can you hear the screams of the mothers and babies trapped under the bombs from America that you supported?
A sinister, quiet, silencing of dissent

1 month ago | johnmenadue.com | Helen McCue

_This brief temporary ceasefire has given people in Gaza a small reprieve from the ferocious carpet bombing, murdering and destruction unleashed by Israel since Oct 7th. But in spite of the millions and millions of people taking to the streets across the world in protest at Israels war crimes, the killing of women and children in horrific numbers, the sinister quiet silencing of dissent both in Israel and across the world has not ceased.
Israel shreds the UN as it seeks to ban UNRWA

1 month ago | johnmenadue.com | Helen McCue

Israel has knocked yet another nail in the United Nations system. This week, with an extraordinary result of 92 to 10 (the 10 being presumably the Arab members), the Knesset passed two bills. One, banning UNRWA from operating in East Jerusalem and in the occupied areas in Gaza and the West Bank under Israeli control. The second, banning Israeli officials from having any interaction with UNRWA officials or employees, all the while referring to this critical UN body as a terrorist organisation.
American-Israeli bombs destroy Australian food aid in Gaza

1 month ago | johnmenadue.com | Helen McCue

Last Sunday, (5 January) an American-Israeli guided missile deliberately attacked and destroyed an Australian-funded food aid storage facility in the area of Deir al-Balah in Gaza. It is, in effect, an attack on Australia. Where is the government’s condemnation? The missle attack seriously injured three workers from the Maan Development Centre. This Centre has already lost six of it workers, murdered by the IDF.
Child amputees and Israel's unchilding reaches new depravity

1 month ago | johnmenadue.com | Helen McCue

As the International Court of Justice received submissions from South Africa and Israel on the 11th and 12th of January on the claims by South Africa of an intention to commit genocide by Israel in Gaza, some 20 Gazan children would have lost a limb, forever maimed and severely disabled.