I woke up in hospital, on a Monday afternoon, and behold! – a catheter was protruding from my nether regions. Steve Latham I’d gone in for an investigation, to see whether I had bladder cancer; the result was gratifyingly negative. But I had not expected to leave with […]
In Focus
In Focus
Macri denies support for social repression in Bolivia
Former Argentinian president Mauricio Macri broke his silence, two days after the scandal regarding his backing of social repression in Bolivia in 2019, he refuted the facts and claimed to be politically persecuted. Already in the international spotlight following the Bolivian government’s complaint against his support with military weapons […]
In Colombia the regime is producing fear
On the occasion of the pandemic, the ensuing lockdowns and the ‘mea culpa’ that many made for the indelible mark that we have been leaving on the planet, the idea-dream spread that when the pandemic was over, human beings would be better. Germán Ayala Osorio* In the Colombian […]
Heroes for young readers
The rainbow colours and bold graphics of publications for young children throw into low relief the grey print of grown-ups’ books. Sean Sheehan Young minds love tales of soaring imagination and worlds of magical transformations where animals converse and the laws of physics are blissfully ignored. But heroism […]
Russian politics and international archetypes
Russian responses to the West have typically fallen into two camps, and we see this playing out again today. Steve Latham On the one hand, were those who may be called “modernisers”, or “westernisers”; because they saw the model for future development in modernisation in copying the western […]
















