Society Tag Archive
The walls are crumbling … but oh so slowly
(7 minute read) Tribal enmity still stalks the streets of Northern Ireland, but Maddy Fry finds signs of a less fraught future on the horizon.
Andy Warhol and the art of letting go
(2 minute read) The temptation to nostalgia should usually be resisted, says Nicole Law.
A first-time father in a post-pandemic world
(2 minute read) Luca La Monica laments the lack of support for new dads.
From faux pas to friendships
(4 minute read) Making friends in a new land means both losing and keeping one’s identity, as Lisa Fraser discovered.
To buy or not to buy
(3 minute read) Nicole Law looks at the dilemmas of the catwalk and suggests it’s time to engage in a new way of clothes shopping.
Broken by Brexit
(2 minute read) Alessandra Pili describes how the UK’s vote to leave the European Union broke her Sardinian-Scottish heart.
Reading behind the lines
(2 minute read) Nicole Law examines the cost of putting principles into action – even when it means changing your local bookstore.
Tribalism alert
(3 minute read) Dennis Relojo-Howell looks at how the cancer of tribalism is weakening our democracy, our harmony and our humanity.
Where is the international outrage as Myanmar burns?
(4 minute read) World leaders are silent or impotent as barbaric generals lead the country to a humanitarian catastrophe, says Benedict Rogers.
Painting the unseen
(4 minute read) Lisa Fraser meets artist James Earley whose portraits of people living on the edge of society are making waves.
