This is an appropriate time to get out on the streets of London looking at its trees. An activity to be enjoyed solo or with a friend – a face mask will not usually be necessary – it opens a window on the extraordinary diversity of trees to be found […]
In Focus
In Focus
The atomic bomb that ended the war
Seventy-five years have passed since the nuclear catastrophe. And now is the time to revisit history and its tragedy: between 6th and 9th August 1945, the United States launched its most devastating device on two Japanese islands, Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The debacle left more than 135,000 dead, 40,000 injured and […]
Consent: the only condition?
While discussing contemporary sexual mores, ‘consent’ seems to be the only moral absolute, the only taboo still worth defending. Steve Latham J.G. Ballard, interviewed during the 1970s, predicted that in the future, there would no moral strictures on sexual activity. “Moral perversion” and “psychopathology” would be outmoded terms. […]
Face masks, a discussion still on the table in the U.S.
With more than 150,500 dead and almost 5,000,000 cases of Covid-19, the controversial debate about the mandatory use of face masks in the United States is an implausible situation in the eyes of experts. Wearing a face mask is considered one of the easiest and most direct ways of […]
Pandemic and The Plague
Shopping in the local supermarket, wearing my face mask, I feel like a criminal or spy, undercover, lurking around the shelves, trying to stay socially-distanced, out of people’s personal space. Steve Latham This is the future-present. Even with restrictions being eased, we have been marked, permanently, or at […]
















