In October 2026, more than 300,000 public sectors went out on strike during a year that has seen the cost of living and inflation skyrocket. The same cost of living issues brought out the hauliers, farmers and others earlier this year in a fuel protest that stopped a nation. Yet […]
The picture houses of the world are currently alive with Christopher Nolan’s cinematic offering of ‘The Odyssey’ – an ancient Greek story, written by Homer in the eighth century BC. Nolan has, on a number of occasions, demonstrated how to capture the epics majestically and effectively – ‘Dunkirk’ and ‘Oppenheimer’ […]
It was while reading the compelling story of Puerto Rico’s nationalist failed uprising against American colonialism that I stumbled onto a connection between the leader of the uprising, Pedro Albizu Campos, and Eamon de Valera. Nelson Denis, author of ‘The War against all Puerto Ricans’ wrote that ‘Albizu Campos had […]
