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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
The ‘need’ of a doctrine of ‘sin’
Sin? A word loaded with theological overtones of repressive legalism? Completely out of step in a modern, western secular, enlightened culture? A word that deserves to be banished from the vocabulary of any sensible, ‘tolerant’ person? Nigel Pocock But might this not be a trifle premature? Human history […]
















