This looks like a highly provocative and paradoxical title, and so it is. What we present here is an outworking of Ofer Zur’s article (2006), The Pathology of Victimhood. Nigel Pocock Zur argues that the tendency to ignore the psychology of victims arises from a fear of […]
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Uncovering Britain’s secret police
On Monday 19th August, Rob Evans, co-author of ‘Undercover: The True Story of Britain’s Secret Police’ will give a talk on his book, along with the Glasgow Defence Campaign, at Glasgow’s Centre for Contemporary Arts (CCA). The award winning investigative journalist, together with Claire Mitchell (prominent human rights […]
Reason produces monsters
…Submitted I am to the present violence for having conceived favour to men. In a weak reed, I put the seed of fire that I stole … that that is the master of all the deadly arts, his most precious instrument … (Prometheus bound. Aeschylus.) Armando Orozco Tovar There are books that always […]
María Mercedes Carranza: never forgotten
She has been rated as one of the foremost figures in mid-twentieth century Colombian literature. Ten years after her death, homage is still being paid to her memory. Coming very soon within the context of the 16th International Bogotá Book Trade Fair, an emotional salute in recognition of the […]
Whilst thousands are starving, others throw food away
Europeans waste 90 million tons of food every year. An insignificant amount when compared to the 2 billion tons thrown away by humans that could be used to feed the 870 million people that are starving in the world. Olga Briasco Next to some bins around a market […]