NATO seems to have set acting as a global police force as its objective, going above UN mandates in the midst of growing global opposition to Washington’s attempts to impose its dominance. With the induction of Finland and Sweden into the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), the expansion poses […]
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Raphael at the National Gallery
The Raphael exhibition at the National Gallery is a humdinger. Paintings, prints and drawings from across Europe, the US, the UK and private collections, as well as the National Gallery’s own collection, are together in one place for the first time. Sean Sheehan The catalogue makes compelling reading […]
Jorge Ricardo Masetti through the eyes of his grandson
Santiago Masetti, also a journalist and history graduate, remembers his grandfather, Comandante Segundo and founder of the Latin American news agency Prensa Latina, who would have turned 93 today. From Buenos Aires, Santiago tells us about his first encounters with the figure of the grandfather he did not know […]
Stereotyping
Some places trade profitably on their stereotyped image: tourists are not allowed to forget that Paris is romantic, London dynamic, New York exciting. Conversely, some locales struggle to overcome negative connotations. Sean Sheehan Medellin or Glasgow are no less attractive than others in their countries and in some […]
Parallel London, parallel lives
Recently, a friend of mine awoke to find that his street in Bethnal Green had been the site for a battle between two rival gangs. Steve Latham Instead of the black-on-white violence which characterised the 1990s, this was a fight between two Asian gangs. In parts of London, […]
















