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 […]

John is living in an old gas heating cupboard. It’s part of an office block, and the security guard lets him stay, because he feels sorry for him. The Prisma’s Memoirs. December 2015   Steve Latham   But, he says that the cupboard is warm enough, because it’s in the […]

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 […]

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 […]

Franco ‘Bifo’ Berardi is an old school Italian marxist. Rising up during the 1960s, he spent years in exile in France, during the repression of the 1970s.   Steve Latham   Now a new superstar of the far left, he has released a new book, “Schizo Mail”, based on short […]