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“I don’t even think you’re real”: the embodied woman as mere spectacle
(8 minutes) Mary Rose describes how women can feel when they are reduced in the eyes of some to their body.
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Urban nihilism and the Culture of Spectacle
(4 minutes) Recent disturbances in South London reveal a deeper shift: how young people are formed, and where they derive meaning and status. Jide Ehizele explains.
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Stuck Culture: why so many modern films fail to inspire
(6 minutes) The rejection of transcendent values is leading to an ever more hollow film industry, argues Joe Gillespie.
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How the wrong answer helps me to get it right
(4 minutes) Monica Sharp reflects on watching carefully, speaking sloppy Italian, and writing from the room she’s in.
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The people outside the box
(12 minutes) Denise Trull explains how she learnt to roll away the stone of her prejudices to experience a resurrection in her relations with ‘the others’.
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Beyond zero-sum thinking: recovering a Christian moral imagination
(5 minutes) Social gain does not have to be at the expense of another, argues Jide Ehizele.
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‘Doing God’ at the Commonwealth
(6 minutes) In this second part of our interview with him, Luis Franceschi, who has just stepped down as Assistant Secretary General of the Commonwealth, discusses colonisation, reparations, dealing with corrupt politicians, and how faith can be a tool for peace.
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The power of friendship: the Commonwealth and its role today
(5 minutes) We ask Luis Franceschi, who has just stepped down as Assistant Secretary General of the Commonwealth, what this body actually does and whether it still has a meaningful purpose in the contemporary world. This is part one of a two-part article.
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Fairy-stories and the ‘democracy of the dead’
(10 minutes) Fairy-stories are far truer than we might think, argues Samuel Sant’Ana.
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Fear and its antidote
(8 minutes) “Fear may be inevitable, but paralysis is a choice”, says Monica Sharp.
