“Housmans bookshop” is a strange delight, among the now affluent, ‘regenerated’, shop fronts around King’s Cross. Steve Latham Together with Bookmarks, it is one of the few remaining radical book stores left in London. The ravages of property prices, together with the decline in the left-wing market, put paid […]
In Focus
In Focus
Reading and doing
Is it enough to read a left leaning newspaper? This can be refreshing compared to the mainstream media, because it means having access to some critical thinking in relation to the government‘s role in addressing social issues. Mabel Encinas However, reading a newspaper is not enough to change […]
Migrants: Thinking from the Otherhood
You may have experienced being ‘othered’. When you feel that you should be different from what you are (in spite of your efforts), that you do not belong (in spite of being where you are), that you and your family do not deserve to have dreams or aspirations (in spite […]
Are we all equal in the UK? Human up
A film with the title “Man Up” is currently on the screens. It’s a traditional expression to encourage like-a-man behaviour, like-a-traditional-man behaviour: get yourself together and be tough. ‘Human up’ is a much richer expression. Mabel Encinas This film made me think that an alternative encouraging and cheering […]
Dialogue in representative democracy
An acquaintance from my neighbourhood had had a recent operation, when my partner found her in the local shop. Everything had gone well while in the hospital, our neighbour asserted, even the fact that she “shared a room with a white woman”. Mabel Encinas My partner was shocked […]















