The young people who are critical for any city’s prosperity are leaving London. Property prices, rents and sales are rising so astronomically, that only the super-rich are able to live in there. Steve Latham Gentrification often prices people out of inner city areas. Now central London is being […]
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John Donne: staying awake
The title of a new biography of an English poet, “Super-infinite”, points to the multi-faceted life of a 16th-century poet whose life journey unfolded in such unexpected ways as to fully earn the book’s subtitle: “The transformations of John Donne”. Sean Sheehan The love poetry and erotic verse […]
The late stage in the decline of capitalism
It’s interesting when commentators from both Left and Right advance a common description and diagnosis of what is wrong with society. It makes you think there may be something in it. Steve Latham What I’ve noticed is the concept of ‘demoralization’. It’s used in two ways. Firstly, it […]
Multiculturalism: freedom and tolerance
Clearly the issue of multiculturalism is ultimately about social change. This is together with the capacity to live in a ‘tolerant’ way with other groups that hold diametrically opposing beliefs. . Nigel Pocock . But what if these groups believe in tyranny, whether of theocracy, materialism, secularism or of any […]
The service economy, an economy of affect
The waitress comes over to take our order, and greets us with a cheery ‘Hi guys!’ Or, the call-centre operative insists on calling me by my first name, in an assumption of easy camaraderie. Steve Latham These are symptoms of the ‘first name syndrome’. Prevalent in our society, […]