Spaniards are facing the inevitable issue of unemployment. Having been forced to abandon their country, they are now enduring the harsh reality which Latin Americans have known only too well for the past few decade, who have almost always been confined to roles in the cleaning industry regardless of any […]
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A difficult juncture forced her to leave her country
The Ecuadorian is well aware of what it means to change your country of residence and culture. By the age of twenty she had already done it twice: first to Spain and then to the United Kingdom. The first time her parents broke the news to her she was […]
Treasuring trees
There is a type of conifer, the Trojan horse fir, growing on a mountain in the part of western Turkey that meets the Aegean Sea. Sean Sheehan It grows above the plain where the city of Troy stood until, as Homer recounts in the “Iliad”, it was finally […]
A watched Britain: from Big Brother to the digital age
We are being watched but do not always know where, how, when and by whom. The issue has many aspects and this article is only the beginning of an extensive investigation. (The Prisma’s memoirs) Arthur Vandellay The protagonist of the novel ‘1984’ (by George Orwell), Winston Smith, like […]
False gods of power: religion, purity and genocide
This is such a common myth amongst so many people, that it needs to be questioned. There are three main things to note. firstly, that all the world’s worst genocides, both in terms of absolute numbers, and, secondly, in terms of percentages, are the produce of, in Franz von Papen’s […]
















