Ethical and Independent Journalism… Journalism for immigrants
Tuesday, July 23, 2019
The catalogue of “Kiss my genders”, an exhibition at London’s Hayward Gallery, does fabulous justice to the range of artists whose work is on display there until 8th September. Sean Sheehan The artists look at identities outside of traditional gender boundaries, celebrating states of non-binary subjectivity that invest […]
I thought there was only one Namibia, the country I travelled around last year as a tourist. This Namibia is by day a nature wonderland and at night a place of starry heavens. Sean Sheehan It has rugged environments like Spitzkoppe, a bare landscape of granite peaks with […]
Many of the figures involved in the European socialist movement in the early decades of the twentieth century are now mostly forgotten but not Rosa Luxemburg. Sean Sheehan Rosa Luxemburg wrote in one of her prison letters: “To be a human being means to joyfully toss your entire […]
Anyone who’s listened to episodes of the BBC’s “In our time” with Jonathan Rée as one of the contributors (for example), or read articles by him (for example) in the London Review of Books, will appreciate his well-informed summaries of philosophical positions delivered in a relaxing and modulated tone. […]
The difficulty when writing about a civil war – in this case the Spanish Civil War – is expressed by the narrator’s friend in “Lord of all the dead”. Sean Sheehan Whatever you write, someone will attack you for idealising the Republicans, for not denouncing their crimes, and […]
