Throughout the world, far-right populists mobilise supporters along lines of identity: especially religion and race. Steve Latham Left-wing commentators decry this, because it subverts class-based politics. But (as a friend asked me) what is the relationship between these two models of political mobilisation? It’s ironic that leftists criticise […]
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Where is England?
In “New model island”, Alex Niven is looking for England and he can’t find it. The country existed as a nation state between the tenth and seventeenth centuries but he asks whether the idea of England today has any usefulness as a cultural cause. Sean Sheehan In the […]
Physical, sexual and psychological abuse towards children
The story of Mia Kurihara, a 10 year old girl who died in 2019 after being abused by her father, shook Japan and led to the Minister of Justice strengthening child abuse prevention laws. Despite being a world leader in development, Japan is facing a number of problems in the […]
Vasily Grossman’s achievements
Vasily Grossman is one of Russia’s greatest twentieth-century writers, possibly the very best. A new biography tells the story of the life of an author who should be better known and recognised for his achievements. Sean Sheehan Grossman knew only too well the twin horrors of the twentieth […]
Hidden, military power stalks and feeds the right
Sufficient evidence leads to thinking that the arrival in Uruguay of a right-wing coalition government is encouraging a habitat for the shadows of the military authoritarianism supported by the last dictatorship to resurface and spread. Hugo Rius Since the previous election, the foundation and quick growth of the […]















