Politics is a concentrated expression of economics – Lenin. Image: public domain By Jim Aitken Venezuela’s oilis now America’s oil.That’s democracy! Continue reading
Image by the author ‘The Last Olive Tree’ is an allegorical short story by Dr. Abdulghani Al-Shuaibi that captures the endurance of the human spirit in Gaza... Continue reading
By Steve Pottinger This poem would like to make it clearthat it is here to subvert nothing whatsoever,here to challenge nothing at all, that it wouldnever ever... Continue reading
Image by Steev Burgess Over the Rainbow On any given morning that the worldslaps hate into its blue selfin a sedated town overlooked by factories,that contain their... Continue reading
Vienna City Hall Christmas Market By Dennis Broe Vienna has been voted the world’s most livable city for a long time, and although it still maintains that... Continue reading
Jesus casting out the money changers from the Temple by Giotto, 14th century By Geoff Bottoms Just as the late Pope Francis completed the apostolic exhortation that... Continue reading
The Picasso of our game By Mark Perryman OK England’s relationship with European football didn’t exactly begin well, in1955, the first European Cup. Chelsea, the First Division champions,... Continue reading
In this edition of Our Culture, we turn to the prison system, one of the most hidden yet culturally rich spaces in Britain. Often seen only as... Continue reading
The Class Ceiling conference, December 2025 By Elise Brown For a long time, conversations about inequality in classical music have existed at arm’s length from those who... Continue reading
Image: Wikimedia MarsOr nuances on a theme in W.H. Auden’s ‘September 1, 1939.’ Minister of war, wherever men have walkedYou have followed –Thermopylae, Austerlitz, Gaza, Ukraine –Ruddy... Continue reading