Santiago Masetti, also a journalist and history graduate, remembers his grandfather, Comandante Segundo and founder of the Latin American news agency Prensa Latina, who would have turned 93 today. From Buenos Aires, Santiago tells us about his first encounters with the figure of the grandfather he did not know […]
In Focus
In Focus
Stereotyping
Some places trade profitably on their stereotyped image: tourists are not allowed to forget that Paris is romantic, London dynamic, New York exciting. Conversely, some locales struggle to overcome negative connotations. Sean Sheehan Medellin or Glasgow are no less attractive than others in their countries and in some […]
Parallel London, parallel lives
Recently, a friend of mine awoke to find that his street in Bethnal Green had been the site for a battle between two rival gangs. Steve Latham Instead of the black-on-white violence which characterised the 1990s, this was a fight between two Asian gangs. In parts of London, […]
Education, a practice of freedom
Depending on how we understand ‘social justice’ and ‘education’ the relationship between them changes. ‘Social justice’ can be a slippery concept, particularly when it is kidnapped by a government that supports an individual-blaming culture. Mabel Encinas The Centre for Social Justice, set up by Ian Duncan Smith, defines […]
The city is an animal
The Earth is an animal. She shakes off her fur when she comes out of the water. She is a living thing, spinning on her axis from the moment she was born from the powdery particles of the universe. She knows she exists. And like all living things, parasites have […]
















