There is a type of conifer, the Trojan horse fir, growing on a mountain in the part of western Turkey that meets the Aegean Sea. Sean Sheehan It grows above the plain where the city of Troy stood until, as Homer recounts in the “Iliad”, it was finally […]
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A watched Britain: from Big Brother to the digital age
We are being watched but do not always know where, how, when and by whom. The issue has many aspects and this article is only the beginning of an extensive investigation. (The Prisma’s memoirs) Arthur Vandellay The protagonist of the novel ‘1984’ (by George Orwell), Winston Smith, like […]
False gods of power: religion, purity and genocide
This is such a common myth amongst so many people, that it needs to be questioned. There are three main things to note. firstly, that all the world’s worst genocides, both in terms of absolute numbers, and, secondly, in terms of percentages, are the produce of, in Franz von Papen’s […]
Inside Iran’s expanding machinery of repression and control
In a context where human rights in Iran are under increasing pressure—from arbitrary arrests to structural violence against minorities and women—the country’s future hangs in the balance; these issues are brought to light in the second part of our conversation with Mai Sato, the UN Special Rapporteur. Rola Zamzameh* […]
Stephen Shames: ways of seeing
Everyone will have seen the image of a defiant Trump, his ear and cheek blood-spattered, being rushed off stage by Secret Service agents at an open-air campaign rally in Pennsylvania. Sean Sheehan At the time of the attempted assassination, July 2024, Trump was a former president of the […]
















