On the occasion of the pandemic, the ensuing lockdowns and the ‘mea culpa’ that many made for the indelible mark that we have been leaving on the planet, the idea-dream spread that when the pandemic was over, human beings would be better. Germán Ayala Osorio* In the Colombian […]
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Heroes for young readers
The rainbow colours and bold graphics of publications for young children throw into low relief the grey print of grown-ups’ books. Sean Sheehan Young minds love tales of soaring imagination and worlds of magical transformations where animals converse and the laws of physics are blissfully ignored. But heroism […]
Russian politics and international archetypes
Russian responses to the West have typically fallen into two camps, and we see this playing out again today. Steve Latham On the one hand, were those who may be called “modernisers”, or “westernisers”; because they saw the model for future development in modernisation in copying the western […]
Is social constructionism, itself socially constructed?
Following my previous article, on unconscious bias, can we say that social constructionism, is itself socially constructed? If the claims social construction makes for itself are true, then the answer must be ‘yes’. Foisted on its own petard, indeed? Nigel Pocock What of this darling of so many […]
Morality and immorality
The British Conservative government has uneasily escaped from a scandal concerning the extra-marital affair of the Health Minister, Matt Hancock. Steve Latham The tabloid press had caught him on camera, embracing his assistant, Gina Colangelo. Initially, he and the Prime Minister, had attempted to brazen it out. Eventually, […]
















