No sooner than Boris Johnson tried to look statesmanlike, it all fell apart. Some prime ministers get to retreat from national issues by bursting onto the world stage. He wanted to be world king as a child. It turns out he’s King Midas but instead of turning everything to gold, […]
In Focus
In Focus
Steve Latham or the meaning of mortality
In the early hours of 31 March, The Prisma’s longest running columnist passed away. A death on which he reflected intimately and publicly, as on the illness that took him away. So much value, so much love, so much shared commitment. The Prisma has died a little with Steve’s loss. […]
It’s not about roaming charges
Two books -“Crashed” (2018) and “The Passage to Europe” (2013)- by Adam Tooze and Luuk van Middelaar have been justly celebrated for their respective studies of the global economic crash of 2008 and the complexion of EU integration. Sean Sheehan Perry Anderson is fulsome in his praise of […]
Kyiv criticises Ukrainians fleeing to Russia
The government of Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky, has condemned the proposed opening of an International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) office in the Russian city of Rostov-on-Don, intended to meet the needs of Ukrainian refugees arriving in Russia. The Kyiv government has also rejected the opening of humanitarian […]
State of emergency triggers violence and violation of freedoms
Faced with a State of Emergency in El Salvador and their possible exit from IACHR, international organisations are calling attention to the announcement, which could criminalise and violate everyone’s human rights. Betsie Bandala El Salvador finds itself in a complicated situation, because the president of the nation, Nayib […]
















