It’s a long story, but a few years ago I met an extraordinary woman called Julia Camoys Stoner, and recently she kindly invited me to the launch of her book, Sherman’s Wife. I coudn’t get over to London for the launch on May 12, so this post is in part to make up for that. [...]
The presidents of Venezuela and Bolivia have rebuffed demands by the European Union and other leaders at a summit in Vienna to temper their policies on foreign investment and energy, declaring that a new political era had arrived. Guardian Report Meanwhile John Pilger, in his usual uncompromising style, reports on his visit to Venezeula where [...]
Some people are just ahead of their time. An Australian friend wrote to me about Victoria Woodhull, who was a prostitute, spiritualist, Wall St broker, publisher of a national newspaper, ran for President of the United States against Ulysses S.Grant and Horace Greeley in 1872. Her platform was free love, short skirts, abolition of the [...]
You don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone. Declan Kiberd analyses the downside of the property boom, where you’ll have to drive further to get your petrol and to bring your children to school. But the wider implications of untrammelled development have not yet been considered by the government or economic planners as the [...]