The late Maxi Jazz suggested in one of his songs, ‘Fear is a weapon of mass destruction!” From the possibility of Iraq using chemical weapons in the day he sang that to covid and now the Ukraine war, I have to ask, is fear being used to control us? Dorset […]
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Keir Hardie would have turned in his grave
When I was invited to an exclusive event, commemorating 130 years since the inception of Keir Hardies Independent Labour Party, with a meeting of exactly 130 people capable of beginning something similar, in the actual building where it happened 130 years ago! I felt honoured. Lizzie Fletcher I […]
This golden mile
“This golden mile”, a photobook by Kavi Pujara, began life when Pujara started to photograph a neighbourhood around Leicester’s Golden Mile. Sean Sheehan He had spent the previous three decades living in London but Leicester was his hometown and it was time to make a journey that would […]
Humanising politics, judicialising the climate crisis
The petition the governments of Chile and Colombia have just lodged with the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (CIDH, to use the Spanish abbreviation) on the subject of the climate crisis and human rights opens the way for the high court and other international justice organisations to take note of […]
Referendum in Ecuador: divided opinions
Ecuadorians will have the final word next 5 February, when they go to the polls to choose both local and regional authorities. The eight proposals that the government of current president, Guillermo Lasso, will put forward to popular vote on 5 February are generating discrepancies in public opinion. The […]
















