I have spent over thirty years working in London, trying to understand the nature of urban experience. Sometimes I’ve done so from a supposedly ‘objective’ social science perspective: facts and figures. Steve Latham At other times, the touchy-feely way of understanding the mode of living in the city, […]
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What does a map tell you?
Herodotus tells a story in “Histories” (5.49-54) about Aristagoras, the leader of a rebellion against the mighty Persian Empire, visiting Sparta to solicit military support. His sales pitch comes complete with a visual aid, a world map engraved on a bronze plate. Sean Sheehan Aristagoras uses the map […]
We are back! The Prisma is back to Facebook!
Helps us to rebuild our audience In September Last year The Prisma newspaper was totally banned from Facebook. It meant we lost all the group, the profile, the page, followers, groups we have joined and the full eight years records! This has been catastrophic for us, because we are […]
Brexit: conservatism, capitalism and class
Worldwide we are in the middle of, what Heinrich Geiselberger calls, “The great regression”, a reaction against seemingly irresistible economic globalisation and planetary integration. Steve Latham The trend combines Brexit and Boris Johnson’s premiership, with Donald Trump’s election, Matteo Salvini in Italy, and Viktor Orban’s rule in Hungary. […]
A love so beautiful
Roy Orbison, in unmatched songs like “A love so beautiful”, evokes the poignancy of a partnership remembered but it takes the letters between two young Germans, written between late 1944 and early 1945, to ground the piercing tenderness in an all-too-real relationship. Sean Sheehan When the Nazis gained […]
















