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The end of globalisation

Despite its wars (Bosnia, Rwanda), the 1990s seem, in retrospect, to have been a time of optimism and hope.   Steve Latham   As the new millennium dawned, it seemed that liberal, and neo-liberal, dreams of a one-world, globalised and democratic system, might spread throughout the planet. How far away […]

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Discovering Korean Cinema

In time to come, the success of “Parasite” (2019) may be seen as the game changer that cemented South Korea’s eminence in world cinema. Yet sixteen years earlier, “Oldboy” helped make familiar the term New Korean Cinema to cineasts whose interests stretched beyond Western films.   Sean Sheehan   What […]

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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 […]

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Covid’s civilisational crisis

Two years ago, our kids bought my wife the board-game, “Pandemic”, for Christmas. We played it several times. But now, it appears all-too-real.   Steve Latham   It seems only recently that scientists were debating whether to label our era as the ‘Anthropocene’, in recognition of the devastation our species […]