Over the course of the Second World War, Spain remained officially neutral or ‘non-belligerent’ as it declared itself in 1940, despite the ideological affinity of Franco’s Catholic-military dictatorship with the fascist regimes in Germany and Italy. Sean Sheehan This affinity had been made obvious as early as 1937 […]
In Focus
In Focus
The Covid condition
I have a sore throat. I want to cough, but coughing could mean I have the virus. So, superstitiously, I stop myself. I figure that, if I really had it, then I wouldn’t be able to hold back. Steve Latham This is the crazy condition we’re in. Thinkers used […]
Another language of postmodernism
You have to relate the graffiti to the world of art and remove anything crude… The same could have been said about graffiti during the eighties. Armando Orozco Tovar It was the time when “street artists” made an appearance, their closest predecessors being the “jucos”, communist activists, or […]
A kind of blue
I let myself out through my garden gate, and walk into the side street, where we live. Above me, I see the bright blue sky, and the spiky, bare, branches of leaves, pointing starkly upwards. Steve Latham Looking for beauty in the centre of the city is a […]
Multiculturalism, a proposal for inclusion
Multiculturalism arose as a response to the challenges presented by immigration and as a way of proposing the democratic inclusion of immigrant ethnic minorities into society. Claudio Chipana The cultural wealth and diversity of the United Kingdom is apparent in its many traditions, ethnicities, languages and religious faiths. […]
















