After Bolivians voted in 2019, the Organisation of American States (OAS) issued a report in which it pointed out flaws in the vote count and suggested the possibility of fraud in favour of Evo Morales. And although this report was based on incomplete data, it served as a pretext for […]
In Focus
In Focus
We need them more than they need us
“If we and the rest of the back-boned animals were to disappear overnight, the rest of the world would get on pretty well. But if the invertebrates were to disappear, the world’s ecosystem would collapse”. Sean Sheehan David Attenborough’s startling statement is quoted by the author of a […]
Let it flow!
I thought I would update you on my recent medical adventures. So, I had a catheter fitted: albeit it only for a couple of weeks. Steve Latham But on Monday, I had it removed. A wonderful feeling! And it wasn’t just the freedom from discomfort. To pee – […]
Existentialism and the Y chromosome
Every male on earth, from the earliest time, has carried a “Y” chromosome (the X-shaped bundles of DNA, contained within the cell nucleus) inherited from the father, which makes him differ from the female, with two X chromosomes. Nigel Pocock In 1946, Jean-Paul Sartre wrote his classic statement […]
The heart of lightness
These three short novels by Sylvia Townsend Warner, written in the 1920s and ‘30s, show the author to be one of the most underappreciated of 20th century British writers of fiction. Sean Sheehan The stories have very different settings and characters and are testimony to the imaginative range […]
















