Covid-19 recovery is measurably and visibly occurring in many countries, but low-income countries have not even returned to 2019 levels, according to this analysis produced since 1990 by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). Elizabeth Borrego The poorest nations are stagnating and, in many of them, conditions are […]
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Mick Lynch: a trade union hero
The General Secretary of the National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers (RMT) shot to fame in 2022 when his union members took industrial action and went on strike. Sean Sheehan His television interviews with trashmongers like Piers Morgan and Richard Madeley are the stuff of legend […]
Brain ‘power’, identity and ‘reasoning’
On 6th of January BBC1 News reported that research shows that brain ‘power’ starts to decay earlier than was thought … Reasoning powers diminish from age 40 or so… Nigel Pocock Is an implied brain ‘power’ only about ‘reasoning’? This statement is extremely simplistic; making good judgements is […]
Disrupting and reassembling images: Höch and Heartfield
Hannah Höch saw the fractured nature of her society and used photomontage and collage to represent and interrogate it. Becoming part of the male-centric Dada movement in Berlin and influencing fellow modernists like John Heartfield, she went on to develop her own aesthetic. Sean Sheehan Hoch’s statement in […]
Prostitution or the freedom of choice
We need to face the human rights issues involved in prostitution. Prostitution is often reduced as an issue of sex labour or it is associated to sexual freedom. However, a broader approach illuminates that prostitution is the result of violence against women. Mabel Encinas ‘Sex work’ is […]
















