I distinctly remember walking down the road from the railway station on the way home from school, the spit dripping down the back of my coat as the other boys spat huge gobs at my retreating figure.   Steve Latham   This was merely one episode in the bullying that […]

As thousands of migrants, refugees and asylum-seekers cross over from Asia and Africa into Europe, it throws up resonances with the movement of peoples through history.   Steve Latham   The drift of peoples has frequently been from the East into the European peninsula, with the original settlement of human […]

Tony Attwood is a renowned world expert on Autism and Asperger Syndrome. He travels the world teaching professionals how to encourage people with these conditions.   Steve Latham   His is not an ivory tower specialisation, however, since his own son has Aspergers. His advice comes, then, with the added […]

In a post-structuralist, post-modern, cultural world, sexual identity as an idea has itself become questionable. Instead of a ‘natural’ exual identity, the notion has developed that sexual identity is socially constructed.   Steve Latham   Before the nineteenth century homosexuals did not exist. Perhaps I should explain. Michel Foucault famously […]

Our team has noticed over the past year or so that when we cover global politics, particularly in relation to Turkey, Ukraine, and Russia, our coverage often elicits comments from self-proclaimed anti-imperialists.   The Canary*   Recently, some of this criticism has intensified in relation to articles we’ve put out […]