As I started to write this text to inform the public about the threats that the Diário do Centro do Mundo (DCM), has been receiving, our website’s lawyer called me with worrying news. Joaquim de Carvalho, Editor in Chief of DCM A far-right politician, linked to Brazilian President […]
In Focus
In Focus
Reparations and genetics: Have they anything to say to each other?
Genetic modification and reparations for slavery might seem on first appearances to be somewhat distant companions. Nigel Pocock How should we define ‘GM’? If we limit the definition to a laboratory, deliberately excluding the social context, then we are unlikely to make a connection between reparations and GM. […]
Where is England?
In “New model island”, Alex Niven is looking for England and he can’t find it. The country existed as a nation state between the tenth and seventeenth centuries but he asks whether the idea of England today has any usefulness as a cultural cause. Sean Sheehan In the […]
Trauma and redemption
The first thing that strikes even the most casual visitor (to Antigua) who has any awareness, is the huge disparity between the nouveau riches with their ostentatious and garish houses, surrounded by security measures, and the shacks (often colourfully decorated) of the poor, much like beach huts in the United […]
Tools of salvation: instruments of surveillance
Computer surveillance may hold the key to halting the spread of Coronavirus. For example, despite our own government’s abject failure, track-and-trace has been successful in many countries. Steve Latham However, following the law of unintended consequences, the use of technology to defeat Covid also demonstrates how the pandemic […]
















