For many people, it is now difficult to let 24 hours pass without either sending or receiving an email, using some form of social media or managing finances and other matters online. Behind the seductive comfort of all this are data centres which store the text, pictures and information. […]
In Focus
In Focus
Capitalism creates desires
Popular culture enjoins us to follow our desires, to pursue our dreams. But is it sufficient? This can be considered exteriorly and interiorly. Steve Latham Exteriorly, we must ask: Do we really want what we want? It is a commonplace observation that capitalism creates desires, for objects and […]
Police: the ‘soul’ of cities
Everyday life forced early man to defend himself against the threats of the environment, whereby it started to plan, create and apply this concept until it became an actual entity. Silvio Gonzalez The first institutionalised police force that came about in the modern world was in the UK, […]
Dreams and nightmares
The word ‘energy’ comes from the ancient Greek noun ‘ergon’, meaning work, and in English ‘work’ can be a noun or a verb; hence the words energy and energise. Sean Sheehan No surprise, then, to find more than one meaning in the title of Michael Marder’s book, “Energy […]
Bartolomé de Las Casas: slaver or pioneer of human rights?
Bishop de Las Casas (1484-1566) is both labeled the founder of the Spanish transatlantic slave trade, and the initiator of the fight for human rights, a paradoxical and seemingly contradictory position. Yet both are true. Nigel Pocock It was unfortunate indeed that de Las Casas suggested that Africans […]
















