Ethical and Independent Journalism… Journalism for immigrants
Friday, October 23, 2026
EdgeNotes
“Why, Sir, you find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.” Steve Latham James Boswell, in his famous biography of […]
The technocratic, managerial ethos of Twentieth Century urban planning left out human value and scale. Steve Latham But opposed, for instance, to Robert Moses’ schemes for New York, arose Jane Jacobs, who reasserted the role of the local, small-scale, and human, for city-living. But it’s debateable whether she […]
Recently, I had a dream, in which I visited a used book store. I was in the Science Fiction section; and with me was a small child. When, suddenly, I was in the story, fighting a huge caterpillar monster! Steve Latham This is how reading gave me an […]
As I write this, I find myself, to my surprise, in hospital. I had been having seizures, along my left arm, which became progressively worse. Steve Latham Now I discover, they are symptoms of a brain cancer, for which I am having investigations, prior to the doctors deciding […]
The urge to understand is fundamental to being human. For some this transmutes into the desire to understand – absolutely everything! Steve Latham This was so, for the German philosopher, Hegel, who constructed an entire scheme to comprehend history, society and culture. This attempt was continued by Marx, […]
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