“Tomorrow they won’t dare to murder us”, by Joseph Andras, confronts one of modern France’s two unpardonable crimes. Sean Sheehan The first was the collaborationist Vichy government that didn’t just come to terms with Nazi power – regretfully, under duress, so the story went – but willingly rounded […]
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Peruvians do not support neoliberal policies
A survey carried out by private company Ipsos, has found that only 22% of citizens object to changing Peru’s neoliberal Constitution, meanwhile 71% are in favour of changing it completely (32%) or partially (39%). Nevertheless, the company that conducted the poll did not directly ask whether the citizens wanted […]
Elián, the Cuban ‘boat boy’
It is been 21 years sincere Elian Gonzalez Brotons returned turned to Cuba, having been detained for several months in Miami. He was just 6 years old at the time, and his image was spread across the globe. Relations with the United States remained strained, and the island was headlining […]
The mind of a conservative
George Berkeley is best known today as the eighteenth-century thinker who wrote “A treatise concerning the principles of human knowledge”. Sean Sheehan He argued that material reality only exists as mental states in the mind. What we think of as reality – the stuff of the world, like […]
Is unconscious bias, itself biased?
A doubled-edged sword? It is currently de rigeur to believe that people are largely driven by their unconscious, especially in their racist, gender and other beliefs that are not currently respectable. Nigel Pocock Yet this a two-edged sword, and one that could bounce back onto the person wielding […]
















