After a long and very painful battle with cancer, Fiona passed away at 2.15 am on Saturday May 16, with her sister Sheila and niece Eleni holding her hand. Fiona was born in Edgware in North London, to an English father and a Scottish mother, and was an extraordinary person […]
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‘Islamophobia’…. But, who has the ‘phobia’?
‘Islamophobia’, a pseudo medical term, designed to silence the arguments of opponents, by socially ostracising them? A ‘phobia’ is an irrational fear. Could it be that those who use the term, are really the ones who have the ‘phobia’, a phobia about not being able to handle the arguments of […]
Periodisation and Covid-history
As I write, today the very first people in Britain are being vaccinated for C0vid-19. It’s an exciting time. The tide is turning. Steve Latham But while politicians engage in mutual backslapping, we must remember there is still a long way to go. It reminds me of Winston […]
The Situationist International
The Situationist International (SI) was founded in 1957 and disbanded in 1972 but its ideas sparkle with relevance and a new book from Pluto Press makes this abundantly clear. Sean Sheehan The nine chapters of the book’s first part, Key Contexts, does what it says on the tin, […]
Drug dealers, violence and pandemic
According to official statistics, in 2020, Panama recorded 455 drug and gang related killings, with most of the cases happening in the middle of the epidemic. This time last year, 407 killings occurred. Nubia Piqueras Grosso 65 killings were recorded in January, 22 more than in 2019. Some […]















