Taber school in Barcelona, removing fairytales and books from young children’s bookshelves, and no doubt to be followed by other schools doing likewise, is a deeply ideological act, and part of a wider process of historical revisionism that infantilises us…

Discussion with Branko Malic on issues brought to mind after the dreadful massacre at Al Noor Mosque, Christchurch

A great gulf has become apparent, ever wider in the last decades. On the one side there are those who believe in the existence of an a priori essential Unity, a Oneness which divided and from which separation emerged form…

The voice is that of a priest in ‘A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man’ by James Joyce. He is trying to convey to his congregation what an eternity in Hell would be like. It is an impressive…