On TV this week, I saw an ad for some sports programmes, which said we don’t have to wait for the future, because it’s already here. Steve Latham It reminded me of cyberpunk author, William Gibson’s quip: that the futures here, it’s just unevenly distributed. Gibson began writing […]
In Focus
In Focus
Breathing scared
Raging against the injustices and fractures that have come to define the USA is a sane response to the state of that country and the roots of this awareness were laid down in the 1960s by people like the poet Allen Ginsberg. Sean Sheehan “The fall of America […]
Resistance and peace
A white cow is not a white dove, says Eduardo Embry, a Chilean poet based in the UK. A gracing pristine cow is heavy, and the meaning of peace is not to appease or to be appeased. By contrast, peace is not a given, but an ongoing process of understanding […]
Muslim ‘evangelists’
My friend and I used to sit and drink coffee on Edgware Road, to talk about life, and about his passions. What he said made me think about issues of tolerance in western liberal society. Steve Latham His own overriding concern is promoting his faith. For this, he […]
Spain and the Holocaust
Over the course of the Second World War, Spain remained officially neutral or ‘non-belligerent’ as it declared itself in 1940, despite the ideological affinity of Franco’s Catholic-military dictatorship with the fascist regimes in Germany and Italy. Sean Sheehan This affinity had been made obvious as early as 1937 […]