Words United is a new book of poems, anecdotes and observations, a fleet of word-drones sent to expose the brutal genocide, displacement and mass starvation visited upon... Continue reading
by Jim Aitken For Ward Jalal Al- Shaikh Khalil The whole world saw her silhouettedancing through the flames of a school.There was something ethereal,some strange scene from... Continue reading
Twice as Nice, The End, by Ewen Spencer, London, 1999 / Pic: Courtesy the artist Sometimes the questions raised by exhibitions are more important than anything they... Continue reading
The Panorama Museum, Frankenhausen Photo by Martin Zeise, CC BY-SA 3.0 Following initial uprisings in southern Germany, the German Peasants’ War quickly spread and reached Thuringia, where... Continue reading
GDR/East German banknote featuring Thomas Müntzer All but unknown in the Western narrative, the radical German theologian, preacher, and revolutionary Thomas Müntzer (c. 1489–1525) became one of... Continue reading
We note with deep sadness the death of Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o. The outstanding Kenyan author died on May 28 at the age of 87. With his passing,... Continue reading
Artwork by Danny Cookney Conference at Geoffrey Manton Building, Manchester Metropolitan University, 19th and 20th June 2025 Cities tell stories about themselves. Manchester likes to tell a... Continue reading
by Marilyn Francis My father would have been ten years old in 1933the year Mr Edgar Lewis JP arrivedin his Morris Oxford bullnoseto read the Riot Act.... Continue reading
Image: Wikimedia commons By Mike Jenkins While they were dreaming of returning to ancestors’ orange groves While they were having nightmaresOf lethal insects hovering above ready to... Continue reading