I am confident that societies in which the majority of the population have perceived themselves as life’s ‘losers’, can be transformed, but this will require hard work and a long-term vision. Namely that a ‘growth mindset’ approach to educational and social change is an extremely powerful tool, especially as regards […]
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Writing as revelation: between everything and nothing
Clarice Lispector saw writing as an uncertain territory where each word could open a void or a revelation. A reflection on her way of stretching time with words, writing from innocence, and turning the ephemeral into the living substance of literature. Carlos Skliar / Con-fabulación If it’s true […]
Refugees, a particular kind of migrants
The only humanitarian ‘urgency’ for the government in relation to the hundreds of thousands of refugees in Europe has been to talk about ‘fixing’ the countries from which people are fleeing. Mabel Encinas Opening the doors to refugees was discarded in the UK so far in spite of […]
The battle among colonial powers to divide up the world
After the First World War, the League of Nations was created as a forum for resolving conflicts between the powers of the time. The idea was that from then on competition to divide the planet up between the colonial powers would be managed peacefully. But it was not and is […]
Immigrants do favour host countries
Around 22.1 million displaced people remain across the Latin America continent as of the middle of 2023. This figure in Latin America and the Caribbean represented approximately a third of all the new individual asylum applications in the world. This is revealed by new studies from the United Nations […]
















