Ethical and Independent Journalism… Journalism for immigrants
Tuesday, August 21, 2018
Is violence decreasing worldwide? This is the question addressed by Steven Pinker (professor of psychology, Harvard), to which he answers a resounding, albeit qualified, 800 page ‘Yes!’ Nigel Pocock For hundreds of years violence has been dropping, even if there are huge spikes in the downward graph caused […]
“Do not go gentle into that good night/ Rage, rage against the dying of the light.” Thus are the closing lines of Dylan Thomas’ extraordinarily powerful poem. Nigel Pocock But is he right? Should people, in order to die well, ‘rage against the dying of the light’? I […]
“Methylation” is a term that very few readers will be familiar with, unless they are geneticists. It refers to destructive mutations of DNA, which have consequences for health later in life. Nigel Pocock Research (on a group of deprived American-American people between 17 and 22 years) shows that […]
I want to make a simple point, that multiculturalism and a multiracial society are two completely different things, although they may overlap. – – Nigel Pocock – Cultures are unequal, and some are extremely corrupt, cruel, violent and should never be accepted by any decent person. In this sense, some […]
What are the effects of ‘shame’ on Caribbean families? I believe that this powerful emotion is perpetuated by the dysfunctional family structures that exist there, such structures being themselves directly caused by the deliberate humiliation visited on the imprisoned Africans by the slavers and their plantocratic masters. Nigel Pocock […]
