St. Augustine’s “City of God” was occasioned by the fall of Rome. In his mind, however, this expanded into a rumination about the history of civilisation. Steve Latham The city is always fallen, always falling. The city is always changing, but that surely does not necessarily entail a […]
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In Focus
‘Emptying’, a means of achieving peace
In his book, “A different drum”, Scott Peck argues that the idea of ’emptying’ is an essential prerequisite to peace in any ‘community’. . Nigel Pocock . With major possible catastrophes, such as global warming and pollution, common cause and open discussion free of power struggles, is absolutely vital. Peck’s […]
Maduro’s success: principled resistance to imperialism pays off
The world has been stunned by a double wonder: Bolivarian Venezuela’s political survival and its miraculous economic recovery: the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean has reported that it expects the Venezuelan economy to grow for the first time since 2014, by 5 per cent, one of the […]
Neutrality and peace, victims of an alliance
NATO seems to have set acting as a global police force as its objective, going above UN mandates in the midst of growing global opposition to Washington’s attempts to impose its dominance. With the induction of Finland and Sweden into the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), the expansion poses […]
Raphael at the National Gallery
The Raphael exhibition at the National Gallery is a humdinger. Paintings, prints and drawings from across Europe, the US, the UK and private collections, as well as the National Gallery’s own collection, are together in one place for the first time. Sean Sheehan The catalogue makes compelling reading […]
















