Ethical and Independent Journalism… Journalism for immigrants
Saturday, October 24, 2026
In Focus
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 […]
Birds have never looked so utterly strange, gorgeous and non-human as they do in Tim Flack’s “Birds”. Set against completely black or white backgrounds, they are photographed with a starkness that renders them beautiful but also uncanny. Sean Sheehan Flack says the simple backgrounds help to heighten our […]
An acquaintance from my neighbourhood had had a recent operation, when my partner found her in the local shop. Everything had gone well while in the hospital, our neighbour asserted, even the fact that she “shared a room with a white woman”. Mabel Encinas My partner was shocked […]
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, […]
The key to commercial success for authors writing mainstream fiction in the West often comes down to their craft in maintaining narrative traction involving psychologically interesting characters. Sean Sheehan Emotional empathy is often established with one or more central character or, in the case of villains and psychopaths, […]
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