Between urban redevelopment and rising property pressure, an independent bookshop keeps alive a tradition of radical thought in London. Its presence recalls pacifist, anarchist and left-wing movements that shaped the city’s political history. (The Prisma memories)   Steve Latham   “Housmans bookshop” is a strange delight, among the now affluent, […]

Violence, humiliation and exclusion shaped the childhood and adolescence of many students before extending into digital spaces. School bullying continues affecting the emotional wellbeing of thousands of young people inside and outside the classroom. (The Prisma’s memoirs)   Steve Latham   I distinctly remember walking down the road from the […]

Surrealism lurks in the city – resting, hiding, waiting to be noticed, observed, called forth into recognition.   Steve Latham   These are times of the signs, random suggestions, inviting us to enter the serendipity of found significances, a conceptual equivalent of ‘found art’. To locate the oddness, even amidst […]

Human movements towards Europe, from antiquity to the present, have been driven by war, crisis and structural pressures, challenging the distinction between migrants and refugees while exposing current tensions around pluralism and social cohesion.   Steve Latham   As thousands of migrants, refugees and asylum-seekers cross over from Asia and […]