Last week, intellectuals, artists and politicians from several countries released a letter calling for the immediate release of Ecuador’s former vice-president, Jorge Glas, who has been imprisoned for more than a month after being forcibly removed from the Mexican embassy in Ecuador. The invasion of Mexican territory was aimed […]
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An Iranian immigrant’s journey to atheism and secularism
Choosing atheism as an Iranian diaspora journalist, I’ve embarked on an intellectual, liberating journey. It’s not about rejecting spirituality or morality, but challenging religious dogma and authoritarianism. Through my journalism, I am committed to the pursuit of truth, justice, and human dignity, advocating for a more inclusive society. Rola […]
Fashion for everyone
Milan, the capital of European fashion, is the city where Daniele Tamagni was born in 1975. “Style is life”, a celebration of his off-the-catwalk fashion photograpohy, is dazzlingly eye-catching. Sean Sheehan In Kami, a tungsten mining village in the mountains Bolivia, Tamagni saw grinding poverty up close when […]
LGBTQIA+ people don’t often feel safe in the UK
New data, released annually by DIVA and Kantar for Lesbian Visibility Week shows that while LGBTQIA+ women and Trans+ people in the UK are often out and proud, many feel unsafe in their day to day lives in spaces like gyms, public transport and even in their own neighbourhoods. Jamie Wareham […]
Hamlet in Palestine
Shakespeare’s “Hamlet” is difficult to pin down because multiple avenues of interpretation are embodied in the drama. The idea of there being one warranted meaning has to give way to a plurality of convincing but not always compatible readings. Sean Sheehan The play is a detective story, a […]
















