When I was a child and my grandmother wanted to talk about “grown up” things with her friends, she sent us to my mother, she told us, “Go and ask your mum for a twig of temboruco”. Mabel Encinas I asked for the small branch and my mother […]
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Guilt matters
“Guilt is a great motivator”, I said to my therapist. She was not impressed. Of course I was being provocative. But psychotherapists are often concerned at mitigating our guilt-feelings, seeing them as signs of a repressive superego. Steve Latham Guilt can indeed be induced, as a means of […]
Murder of women continues upward trend
In Mexico, 3,462 women were killed between January and November 2021, more than ten a day on average. The figure for this year has reached 1,320 – an average of 11 murders each day – meaning that Mexico has the highest femicide rate in the world. Luis Manuel Arce […]
The legal dimension of the Ukraine war
We all use the law, even if only to denigrate it; we haven’t thrown it into the waste paper basket yet, and if we have we still look at it wanting to take it out again and put it on the shelf next to the books, even if we are […]
Media control: the politics of the tyrant?
One of the most fascinating aspects of media, is how it controls public perceptions. People are totally convinced that their perceptions are correct, whether in Putin’s Russia, or Stonewall’s London. Nigel Pocock The story is the same. Almost complete control, with no alternative definitions of reality, and for […]
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