Ethical and Independent Journalism… Journalism for immigrants
Saturday, October 24, 2026
Buchi Emecheta, orphaned as a child, came to London from Nigeria in the 1960s. When her marriage broke down she was only 22 and with five young children to bring up as a single mother. She died in 2017. Sean Sheehan The difficulties she faced in London are […]
Materialism, physicalism, purposeless, as envisaged by Richard Dawkins and Stephen Jay Gould, or Daniel Dennett, need not have the last word. It is not Social Darwinism of the violent superman, but the conscious voluntary taking on of empathy and connection that is crucial. Nigel Pocock There seems to […]
Tony Attwood is a renowned world expert on Autism and Asperger Syndrome. He travels the world teaching professionals how to encourage people with these conditions. Steve Latham His is not an ivory tower specialisation, however, since his own son has Aspergers. His advice comes, then, with the added […]
Nudism was never part of her lifestyle but Virginia Woolf liked to remind friends she was inviting to her house to “bring no clothes”. Sean Sheehan What she meant by ‘clothes’ was traditional fashion which in the 1920s dictated how upper class women and men should dress, a […]
Institutionalisation is the enemy (mixed motivation, fossilisation, bureaucratisation) and requires constant vigilance. Nigel Pocock As Steve Taylor observes, undue concern with offices, status, and hierarchy, at the expense of empathy, will destroy connection. Indeed, it will lead to disconnection and tyranny, narcissism, and abuse of power. This is […]
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