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Living in Nazi Germany

Jack Nicholson, in the 1975 movie “The passenger”, plays a character who switches his identity with that of someone recently deceased.   Sean Sheehan   A novel with the same title, “The passenger”, was written almost four decades earlier but remained virtually unknown for seventy years. Its main character is […]

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The importance of trust

This article came about after reading a surprising source―an item by two young (early thirties) female investigative journalists on an investigative assignment to a nudist colony.   Nigel Pocock   At the end of their piece, the authors comment on a characteristic of the group that they clearly had not […]

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Class and identity

Throughout the world, far-right populists mobilise supporters along lines of identity: especially religion and race.   Steve Latham   Left-wing commentators decry this, because it subverts class-based politics. But (as a friend asked me) what is the relationship between these two models of political mobilisation? It’s ironic that leftists criticise […]