Juning’s four children had to stay on the island Bantayan in the Philippines when the family employing her as a domestic servant first moved from Manila to Hong Kong. Sean Sheehan The family’s daughter, Caroline, was born there in 1976 and when the family moved to London Juning […]
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Public opinion or identity atomised
One deceitful and yet successful strategy used by mass media to spread truths that do not exist is by putting words in the mouths of millions, whether these be words of demand, rejection, support or condemnation. Today this strategy is employed by ideologies that seek to encroach on liberties. But […]
Covid and totalitarian temptations
The US psychologist Michelle Gelfand wrote in The Guardian (2.2.21) about different cultural responses to the pandemic. Steve Latham She suggests that “tight” societies, with high levels of adherence to rules, reacted better to Covid than loose” societies, which demonstrated weaker rule-keeping. This is part of her wider […]
Trust, to survive and function
This article came about after reading a surprising source, an item by two young (early thirties) female investigative journalists on an investigative assignment to a nudist colony. Nigel Pocock At the end of their piece, the authors comment on a characteristic of the group that they clearly had […]
Remaking London
To paraphrase Marx, Covid “weighs like a nightmare on the brains of the living”. We are living the diminishment of the world. It is getting smaller. Steve Latham We are not travelling as much: internationally, but also within countries, under lockdowns, and even between city neighbourhoods. With official […]
















