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A history of migration

As thousands of migrants, refugees and asylum-seekers cross over from Asia and Africa into Europe, it throws up resonances with the movement of peoples through history.   Steve Latham   The drift of peoples has frequently been from the East into the European peninsula, with the original settlement of human […]

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Bewildered and British

The back cover of Mahtab Hussain’s “You get me?” is a condensed anthology of headlines from some of Britain’s most awful newspapers.   Sean sheehan   This is just four of them:  “Muslim thugs aged Just 12 in knife attack on Brit schoolboy” (Daily Star, 2010), “Muslims tell us how […]

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Helga Paris

This is how Helga Paris, a photographer in the German Democratic Republic (GDR), came to take the photographs in “Women at work”.   Sean Sheehan   “Whenever I was at the shopping centre, I looked at people, watched them closely, imagined how they come home tired from work, before they […]

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Russia is not the Soviet Union

Many of us have confused our words between Switzerland and Sweden or Lebanon and Libya. Some people, when meaning Russia, end up mentioning the Soviet Union. The problem comes when one truly equates them.   Texto y fotos: Victor de Currea-Lugo*   Now, in the setting of the Ukraine war, […]