I faced worse mental torture compared to the intelligence prisons in Iran. We have been under severe mental torture for three years. We see it clearly and exactly: there is no way behind—to return is a torture—and there is nothing in front of us but hell. There is no...
As Rohingya villages in Myanmar’s Rakhine State were set alight last month, the military and civilians lined up to shoot, hack and beat defenceless villagers to death as they tried to escape. In the last few weeks, a mass exodus of more than a quarter of a million...
The journalistic cliche du jour – ‘Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold’ – from WB Yeats’ poem ‘The Second Coming’ was quoted more often in the first seven months of 2016 than any other year in the past three decades....
Never has a prediction come to fruition so quickly: Sam Dastayari’s Analysis of the UK election result comes with a warning that the Australian Left – by which he seems to mean the Labor Party – won’t learn the right lessons because they’re ‘lazy’ and will only take...
Marooned on a traffic island in central London, Robert Maitland, the protagonist of JG Ballard’s Concrete Island, comes to inhabit a world that he always, on some level, knew existed, but that he never really knew. He drove passed it everyday on his way from his home...
