Protesters block access to the Ring Bridge in Beirut, October 26, 2019. Photo: Nadim Kobeissi (Creative Commons) On 17 October 2019, the Lebanese cabinet met amid a rapidly deteriorating financial situation and catastrophic wildfires ravaging the country. During that...
Groups like São Paulo’s Bancada Ativista are working to change Brazil’s politics at the local level (Photo credit: Pedro Maia / Veja SP) Following Jair Bolsonaro’s election as the president of Brazil in 2018, democratic institutions have faced a series of attacks,...
Bristol CND members going to Aldermaston, 21st April 1962 (Copyright: Bristol Post) Angela Carter’s time in Bristol (1961-69) and Bath (1973-75) provides the frame to explore the ‘provincial bohemia’ of the period and its influence on her work. This book makes a...
It’s hard to kill a myth. The dream of the Golden Age – Cockaigne, Eden, Atlantis – a land where work is rare and abundance the norm, has persisted for thousands of years. James Suzman, as he relates in Work: A History of How We Spend Our Time, believes he’s found it....
Screenshot from Cyberpunk 2077 Video games as cultural objects are increasingly experimenting with problems inherent to the ideological structures of capitalism. Notably, the recent CD Projekt Red title Cyberpunk 2077 was surrounded by a vortex of controversy when...
Rev. Lesley Carroll, Patrick Magee and and Jo Berry whose father was killed in the Brighton bomb. Credit: Brian O’Neill Attempts by Irish republicans to materially contextualise the Troubles are routinely met with opposition and derision by a significant section of...
Covid-19 testing centre in Warora, Maharashtra. Photo: Ganesh Dhamodkar/Wikimedia Commons India has been added to the UK ‘red list’. With the country setting a global record for case numbers reported in a single day and reports of oxygen shortages and hospitals...
In March 2020, Annemarie Plas learned that her native Netherlanders were publicly applauding carers for their dedication in the fight against Covid-19. She posted about it on social media, encouraging people in the UK to do the same. The idea spread quickly and soon...
On 20 April, the verdict that so many had hoped and wished for was delivered: Derek Chauvin was found guilty of killing George Floyd. Some commentators have declared this as a ‘milestone’, a step to ‘justice’, even a ‘victory’. It’s understandable, especially for so...
The mosaic of Theodoric’s palace with the walled city of Ravenna behind at the Basilica of Sant’Apollinare Nuovo. Photo: Kieran Dodds Ravenna, to anyone raised on western school history, is at first baffling. What are these gigantic, red-brick tram-sheds or...
The Dearg le Fearg march in Belfast, 2017. Credit: Ciarán Mac Giolla Bhéin As we approach the centenary of Northern Ireland, one thing we can be sure of is that official ‘celebrations’ will be absent any mention of the century-long state-sponsored suppression of the...
Beyond Representation at the International Literary Festival in Dublin, 2020. Photo credit: Eoin O’Neill In recent years, black people and the wider community of people of colour in Ireland have been gaining success in all aspects of Irish society. Yet there still...