Ethical and Independent Journalism… Journalism for immigrants
Thursday, October 22, 2026
EdgeNotes
She travelled from the Middle East when she was fifteen. She’s now twenty-eight, and has lived under the immigration radar in London ever since. Steve Latham She came, she told me, by truck, train, car, van and boat, all the way. She was a victim of, what we […]
Previously I explored a ‘normal’ experience of depression, as a variation from the straight line. But straight line, the ‘normal’, for me has always been below what is normal for others. Steve Latham Without being self-pitying, the continual curse of the depressive, I’d say that happiness has eluded […]
The European Union is a contemporary manifestation of Kant’s fantasy of universal peace. Long condemned as chimerical, his vision is increasingly being realised in Europe. Steve Latham This project of the imagination is, of course, fragile, ever likely to disintegrate into atavistic warfare, as in the Balkans at […]
Daniel Rodgers’ book “Age of fracture” argues that the consensus underlying western society has become fractured, and any notion of cultural unity lost. Steve Latham He traces this back to roots within both conservative and liberal thinking in the last quarter of the Twentieth Century. Both Right and […]
The recent budget of the Conservative Government in Britain, delivered by Chancellor George Osborne, has caused consternation. Steve Latham Welfare cuts have been extended over ever-more vulnerable groups, such as the disabled and single parents. But the current reduction in welfare spending should come as no surprise. It […]
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