A white cow is not a white dove, says Eduardo Embry, a Chilean poet based in the UK. A gracing pristine cow is heavy, and the meaning of peace is not to appease or to be appeased. By contrast, peace is not a given, but an ongoing process of understanding […]
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Muslim ‘evangelists’
My friend and I used to sit and drink coffee on Edgware Road, to talk about life, and about his passions. What he said made me think about issues of tolerance in western liberal society. Steve Latham His own overriding concern is promoting his faith. For this, he […]
Spain and the Holocaust
Over the course of the Second World War, Spain remained officially neutral or ‘non-belligerent’ as it declared itself in 1940, despite the ideological affinity of Franco’s Catholic-military dictatorship with the fascist regimes in Germany and Italy. Sean Sheehan This affinity had been made obvious as early as 1937 […]
The Covid condition
I have a sore throat. I want to cough, but coughing could mean I have the virus. So, superstitiously, I stop myself. I figure that, if I really had it, then I wouldn’t be able to hold back. Steve Latham This is the crazy condition we’re in. Thinkers used […]
Another language of postmodernism
You have to relate the graffiti to the world of art and remove anything crude… The same could have been said about graffiti during the eighties. Armando Orozco Tovar It was the time when “street artists” made an appearance, their closest predecessors being the “jucos”, communist activists, or […]
















