Ethical and Independent Journalism… Journalism for immigrants
Friday, May 10, 2024
EdgeNotes
I have spent over thirty years working in London, trying to understand the nature of urban experience. Sometimes I’ve done so from a supposedly ‘objective’ social science perspective: facts and figures. Steve Latham At other times, the touchy-feely way of understanding the mode of living in the city, […]
Worldwide we are in the middle of, what Heinrich Geiselberger calls, “The great regression”, a reaction against seemingly irresistible economic globalisation and planetary integration. Steve Latham The trend combines Brexit and Boris Johnson’s premiership, with Donald Trump’s election, Matteo Salvini in Italy, and Viktor Orban’s rule in Hungary. […]
I let myself out through my garden gate, and walk into the side street, where we live. Above me, I see the bright blue sky, and the spiky, bare, branches of leaves, pointing starkly upwards. Steve Latham Looking for beauty in the centre of the city is […]
On TV this week, I saw an ad for some sports programmes, which said we don’t have to wait for the future, because it’s already here. Steve Latham It reminded me of cyberpunk author, William Gibson’s quip: that the future’s here, it’s just unevenly distributed. Gibson began writing […]
In his New Year Message, Jeremy Corbyn called for the Labour Party to lead the ‘resistance’ against the Conservatives. Steve Latham Immediately after his election defeat, however, as he announced his resignation, Corbyn had advocated a “period of reflection”. But he is returning to the back benches, where […]
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