Accommodation and full board in exchange for looking after children; millions of young people arrive in London from all over the world with this exact purpose. She came from Cuba, passing through Spain on the way, she is an Au Pair and she intends to stay here. When […]
Author: The Prisma
Should drugs be decriminalised?
Between the ages of eleven months and seven I grew up in Henleaze, a small suburban community located on the outskirts of Bristol’s centre. Ben Stupples My family and I lived in a semi-detached house of average size that separated us from our neighbours with wafer-thin walls, and […]
Integration and the limits of tolerance
Clearly the issue of multiculturalism is ultimately about social change. This is together with the capacity to live in a ‘tolerant’ way with other groups that hold diametrically opposing beliefs. . Nigel Pocock . But what if these groups believe in tyranny, whether of theocracy, materialism, secularism or of any […]
Latin American women and their fight against fear
Brazil and Honduras are two countries in which women are taking the lead in stories of self-improvement and resistance against established power in the continent. Benjamin Serra Gender-based violence and femicide, the emancipation of women, female circumcision, universal suffrage, equal pay and work for men and women […]
Leopoldo García: a living death
One of the first ten civilians to be exiled out of Chile by Pinochet, Leopoldo García was arrested in the centre of Santiago, handcuffed and repeatedly beaten on the head the entire night. He could have been killed. His forehead now bears the scar of being hit by the base […]
















