Glacial advances
The dreadful killing of George Floyd has further consciousness of Black Lives Matter as an idea, a movement and an
Category: For itself
Thinking about white privilege
My father, Robert, was born in Salonica (Thessaloniki, in Northern Greece) in 1927. His father, Isaac, was a doctor, while
Talking Until Nightfall
‘I have confidence in life, which I love. I have confidence in my own body, far more intelligent than us
Worn-out shoes
In the autumn of 1945, in the broken months after the end of the Second World War, Natalia Ginzburg was
Invisible city
The window in front of my desk looks onto a bank with a hedge of hazel, ash and hawthorn. At
This changes everything
Sometimes, change is extraordinarily sudden. The first case of coronavirus appeared in China on 19 November 2019. It reached Italy
The continuing validity of community development
In preparation for a visit to meet Northern Heartlands in County Durham, I’ve been reading about their community projects and artists’ residencies,
My European home
What a sad day. Not just for me, but for millions of people across this complicated continent – British people who
Remembering the liberation of Auschwitz
On this day, 75 years ago, Soviet forces reached the Nazi incarceration and extermination complex at Auschwitz. What they found
Happy new year
Chaque génération, sans doute, se croit vouée à refaire le monde. La mienne sait pourtant qu’elle ne le refera pas.
Parliament of Dreams 