1 Day Without Us: Let’s Have a Different Conversation About Migration
- January 04, 2018
- by
- Matt
The One Day Without Us campaign came into existence in the autumn of 2016, out of a conversation on Facebook. We were migrants, EU citizens and UK nationals, all of whom were appalled by the shocking increase in anti-migrant hate crime on the streets, by the scapegoating of migrants in the media and on social...
Waiting for the Barbarian
- December 19, 2017
- by
- Matt
Anyone familiar with horror films will recognize the following scenario: a group of people are being terrorised by a monster/serial killer/alien. They find a hiding place and fortify it. All their attention is focused on keeping the intruder out. Not until it is too late do they discover that the monster is already inside...
Trump’s Christmas Message
- November 30, 2017
- by
- Matt
This week the Trump non-presidency posted what may well go down in history as some of the weirdest photographs ever taken in the White House, featuring Melania Trump as the spirit of Christmas. One of them shows the First Lady walking with a fixed grin through what looks alarmingly like a giant silver vagina,...
The Intensification of Calamities: Catalonia’s Unlikely Cheerleaders
- October 29, 2017
- by
- Matt
Of all forms of war, the ancient Greeks recognized that civil war was the worst and most destructive form of human conflict. This is because civil war shatters the bonds that hold societies together, tearing families, neighborhoods and communities apart, unleashing hatreds, divisions and conflicts that can only be resolved, not through negotiation, compromise...
Despatches from Catalonia
- October 06, 2017
- by
- Matt
Last week I posted a guest post from Barcelona in the lead up to the Catalan Referendum. Today I’m posting the following dispatch from the frontlines of the referendum struggle from a very different perspective, summing up the tumultuous events that have shaken Catalonia in the last few week, by my great friend and...
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