The myth of Narcissus is a familiar one. He sees his reflection in a pool and, as Ovid says in “Metamorphoses”, he “fell in love with an empty hope, a shadow mistaken for substance’” Sean Sheehan His falling victim to his own reflection serves as a metaphor for […]
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A party leader and the politics of truth
In her red dress, tight-lipped and gimlet-eyed, the speaker looked up from her notes, and declared that if you believed you were elephant, that was true. Nigel Pocock Well—not quite. If you believed, and self-defined, as whatever gender or non-gender you were, that was true for you. And […]
Fear of the alternative opinion
Observers believe that, far from recognising a total restriction of press freedom, the West prefers to denounce alleged propaganda in their attempt to close off any possibility of an alternative opinion. Antonio Rondón García Some seem to forget the crucial role of company and previews in the court […]
Europe’s frozen economy
Although some analysts believe they can find fewer negative signs in the European economic performance in the first weeks of 2023, they fail to counterbalance the forecast of a very difficult year with corresponding social repercussions, especially for the wage-earning and most vulnerable sectors in the continent. “Europe is […]
The left: how to survive in times of the right
The Latin American and Caribbean left’s justified optimism about recent electoral triumphs should not lead to the challenges the current social order places on it, and its own internal weaknesses regarding its programme and the nature of its organisation, being ignored.
















