Clearly the issue of multiculturalism is ultimately about social change. This is together with the capacity to live in a ‘tolerant’ way with other groups that hold diametrically opposing beliefs. . Nigel Pocock . But what if these groups believe in tyranny, whether of theocracy, materialism, secularism or of any […]
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The cityscape: the significance of the past
The cover of the CD, Home, from electronic, drum and bass outfit, Rudimental, features the Hackney Peace Mural. Steve Latham I remember it being painted in 1985. I am surprised that it still exists and has not been painted over, in some act of so-called urban regeneration. The […]
Fernando Garavito: “Africa began with Portugal”
The Colombian journalist and writer died on 28 October 2010, in the same year in which he became Deputy Editor of the online magazine Razón Pública. The writer died in an accident on the road in New Mexico, USA, the country to which he found himself exiled. Armando Orozco […]
Sorrow and sexuality in a refugee camp
Sulaiman Addonia, the author of “Silence is my mother tongue”, had to flee Eritrea with his mother and siblings to a refugee camp in Sudan when he was a child. Sean Sheehan This is the plight of the central characters in his novel – Saba, her older brother […]
The paradox of the higher power
An ancient teacher and rabbi taught both obedient love, and that his commands were not burdensome. Indeed, that his commands had exactly the reverse effect―they lightened the burdens of the heavy-laden! Nigel Pocock How can this be? For this rabbi demanded absolute obedience and unselfish love (agape) towards […]
















