Since the recent round of local elections in the UK, the Labour Party has been subject to a bout of rancorous soul-searching and hand-wringing over how to make up lost electoral ground. Steve Latham What is the remedy for the loss of support, even among traditional Labour voters, […]
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Chilean cinema in the 21st century
During the Pinochet dictatorship, only two national feature films were released in Chile but over the last decade of this century some two dozen new films were premiered every year. Sean Sheehan Chilean cinema is now pulled between local identities and mainstream global aesthetics: a time of adaptation […]
No end to the repression in Chile
Tensions are increasing in Chile. Since October 2019, something that many had been waiting 30 years for became possible thanks to the power of the people: the possibility to change a constitution handed down from Augusto Pinochet’s dictatorship (1973-1990). Pierre Lebret* Gustavo Gatica, a young student that lost […]
Coffee: the good and the bad
Various legends about the plant exist, with several tracing its origins to Ethiopia. One tells of how a zebra shepherd, upon seeing the vitality his flock showed after eating the red beans, took them to a revered Muslim wise man, who threw them in the fire as a sign of […]
Religion’s malevolence
The Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) that currently heads the coalition Assembly in Northern Ireland was formed by Ian Paisley, a Protestant evangelical minister. Sean Sheehan Although he honed a brand of hate speech directed at Catholics (‘they breed like rabbits and multiply like vermin’) and the papacy (‘I […]
















