For Robert Menéndez, chair of the United States Senate Foreign Relations Committee, the cases of Cuba and Iran are sacrosanct. His hatred for the Cuban revolution and, therefore, the people whose ideas do not mirror his own, goes back a long way. The Cuban American senator has been in […]
In Focus
In Focus
Defending Assange and confronting Covid
The decision by the judge that Julian Assange should not be extradited to the United States is good news in dark times but it may not last. It was a surprise for observers who saw blatant hostility to the defendant by the judge. Sean Sheehan Moreover, the decision […]
Life matters
Lord Sumption is a former member of the British Supreme Court, who received criticism recently over his remarks about the value of human life. Steve Latham He has expressed the opinion that a woman with stage 4 cancer has a life “less valuable” than others, who might benefit […]
Cammell Laird to lay off 178 workers
Unite the Union, has branded the announcement last Friday that the Cammell Laird shipbuilding yard in Birkenhead is intending to make 178 workers redundant, as “totally unacceptable”. The yard currently has a workforce of approximately 700 workers. Despite there being a job retention scheme in place at the yard, […]
The totalitarian temptations of Covid
The US psychologist Michelle Gelfand wrote recently in The Guardian (2.2.21) about different cultural responses to the pandemic. Steve Latham She suggests that “tight” societies, with high levels of adherence to rules, reacted better to Covid than “loose” societies, which demonstrated weaker rule-keeping. This is part of her […]
















