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United Kingdom: Climate and cost-of-living protest action to converge in London this weekend

A coalition of activist groups will converge to engage in protests in London this weekend. Beginning on the 1st of October at 11 am, Just Stop Oil activists will begin a mass demonstration in Westminster to demand that the UK…

Italian elections: abstention and the far right

The first statistic of the Italian political elections is the record abstention rate: 64% of voters, confirming the distrust of the electorate towards the political system damaged by changes in programmes and alliances, by an incomprehensible electoral system that rewards…

The price of a life

From the ancient Greek philosophers and thinkers to modern humanist theories, passing through Christianity and all religious and non-religious systems, human life, its existence on earth, has tended to be protected, albeit rhetorically, above all other considerations (I will not…

Heating Up: An Invisible Consequence of Russia’s War in Ukraine

Russia’s invasion and ongoing war against Ukraine has led to a significant, and as yet unknown, number of deaths amidst a wider humanitarian catastrophe. With millions of people displaced from their homes, critical infrastructure destroyed, and a looming disaster at…

The “Diada” of 2022 and beyond: How long will you abuse our patience?

While the Community of Madrid is still in official mourning for the death of Queen Elizabeth II of England and the Sex Pistols’ song “God Save the Queen” is playing in some homes around the world, Catalonia’s national day, the…

Out on the Town: Magnus Hirschfeld and Berlin’s Third Sex (Part 2)

Out on the Town Magnus Hirschfeld and Berlin’s Third Sex Years before the Weimar Republic’s well-chronicled freedoms, the 1904 non-fiction study Berlin’s Third Sex depicted an astonishingly diverse subculture of sexual outlaws in the German capital. James J. Conway introduces a foundational text…

Roger Waters Responds to Mrs. Olena Zelenska of Ukraine

Mrs Zelenska’s Sept 5 tweet: It is Russia that invaded Ukraine, destroys cities and kills civilians. Ukrainians defend their land and their children’s future. If we give up – we will not exist tomorrow. If Russia gives up – war…

High-end ignorance

Much has been made of the story of the kick to culture that a Minister of Culture, Esperanza Aguirre, let loose in the form of a slap in the face, when, speaking on a radio programme, cultural, of course, about…

World Citizens and the Overview Effect

This week we release a new video of our channel “Good ideas you may not know about“: This time we tell the story of Garry Davis and his World Citizen initiative. It is a very curious story of a World…

Out on the Town: Magnus Hirschfeld and Berlin’s Third Sex (Part 1)

Out on the Town Magnus Hirschfeld and Berlin’s Third Sex Years before the Weimar Republic’s well-chronicled freedoms, the 1904 non-fiction study Berlin’s Third Sex depicted an astonishingly diverse subculture of sexual outlaws in the German capital. James J. Conway introduces a foundational text…

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