Victorian imagery has contributed significantly, in my opinion, to the sentimentalisation of Christ as the Good Shepherd. I have been looking for images of the bad […]
Certain species revert to a non-procreative default position when they sense that their collective life is under threat. But not so with human beings. Against all […]
‘To proclaim the need for new ideas has served, in some measure, as a substitute for them’ wrote the economist and diplomat, J.K. Galbraith. If his […]
According to one of the Oxford dictionaries, there is a possible link between madness and creativity, a truth born out by a few great artists but […]
Somewhere between Nathanial Hawthorne’s Hester Prynne (The Scarlet Letter) and the story of the Prodigal Son we meet Shamima Begum, a nineteen year old mother of […]