James Kelman horrified the literary establishment when he won a major award for his fourth novel, “How late it was, how late” in 1994. Sean Sheehan A novel about an ex-con losing his sight as the result of a beating by the police and then coming up against […]
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The challenge of creating more communities
Far from being a society of mature people, western culture encourages mass narcissism and infantilisation, in ever-increasing numbers. Nigel Pocock What is ‘community’? It is a noun, and has a verbal form, ‘communication’. This gives us the essence of a ‘community’, for it is nothing more or less […]
Latin American identity is multicultural
A Latin-American is someone who belongs to, or is descended from Latin America, the conjunction of countries which mostly speak Spanish or Portuguese, without excluding the indigenous languages. Claudio Chipana We are Latin-Americans because we come from that great region south of the Rio Bravo, that region which […]
Participatory Budgeting or the people taking back control
Very few local councils in England allow their residents a say in how they spend their taxes. The Labour Party leadership has said nothing about a model of local democracy widely used in Europe and the Americas. Here is the history and here is how it empowers the people. Accountability and Transparency are essential to PB.
Latin America’s homicide hotspots
Brutal fights to control lucrative criminal economies have led specific provinces and cities across Latin America to have sky-high homicide rates, far above national averages. Chris Dalby y Peter Appleby* In Mexico, the state of Colima has been battered by an ongoing war to control nascent synthetic drug […]
















