Seventy-five years have passed since the nuclear catastrophe. And now is the time to revisit history and its tragedy: between 6th and 9th August 1945, the United States launched its most devastating device on two Japanese islands, Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The debacle left more than 135,000 dead, 40,000 injured and […]
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Divine violence
Violence was all around Walter Benjamin when he set down to write “Toward the critique of violence” in December 1920. Sean Sheehan The First World War had only been over for two years, the German Revolution had been ruthlessly suppressed in 1919 and nine months earlier a right-wing […]
Empathy and connection (I): The answer to the world’s tyrants
In his recent book (“DisConnection”, 2023), Dr. Steve Taylor (Leeds Beckett University, UK), puts forward the deceptively simple thought, that a lack of empathy and connection between peoples, nations, governments and individuals, is what is facilitating abusive tyrants at every level. Nigel Pocock This is driven by a […]
My name is Alfred Hitchcock
This is a 120-minute documentary that recreates Alfred Hitchcock’s masterpieces and, at the same time, invites us to discover lesser-known titles and his early works in silent films, such as Farmer’s Wife (1928), one of his favourites. Daimarelys Pérez The strong personality of the master of suspense and […]
The double tragedy of displaced people
In Haiti, more than 5,000 people fled Carrefour-Feuilles, a suburb ravaged by armed groups whose presence forces Haitians to flee their homes. According to the UN, armed gangs have killed more than 2,400 people since the beginning of the year. Survivors and those who have been driven from their […]
















