In Mexico, 3,462 women were killed between January and November 2021, more than ten a day on average. The figure for this year has reached 1,320 – an average of 11 murders each day – meaning that Mexico has the highest femicide rate in the world. Luis Manuel Arce […]
In Focus
In Focus
The legal dimension of the Ukraine war
We all use the law, even if only to denigrate it; we haven’t thrown it into the waste paper basket yet, and if we have we still look at it wanting to take it out again and put it on the shelf next to the books, even if we are […]
Media control: the politics of the tyrant?
One of the most fascinating aspects of media, is how it controls public perceptions. People are totally convinced that their perceptions are correct, whether in Putin’s Russia, or Stonewall’s London. Nigel Pocock The story is the same. Almost complete control, with no alternative definitions of reality, and for […]
A history of migration
As thousands of migrants, refugees and asylum-seekers cross over from Asia and Africa into Europe, it throws up resonances with the movement of peoples through history. Steve Latham The drift of peoples has frequently been from the East into the European peninsula, with the original settlement of human […]
Bewildered and British
The back cover of Mahtab Hussain’s “You get me?” is a condensed anthology of headlines from some of Britain’s most awful newspapers. Sean sheehan This is just four of them: “Muslim thugs aged Just 12 in knife attack on Brit schoolboy” (Daily Star, 2010), “Muslims tell us how […]
















