Turning Back the Clock

Otto Bajwa Greenwood In the 1940s and 50s, Swiss architect, Le Corbusier, had a sleek and disciplined vision of engineering, hoping to inject virility and life into concrete in a way that had never really been seen before. The post-war landscape, to which he was responding, was a time of

Stanley Hardy About one thousand pages into Les Misérables, Victor Hugo disrupts the main narrative to ask a question: ‘What constitutes an emeute, a riot?’ He then proceeds to answer that question: ‘Nothing and everything. An electricity gradually released, a flame suddenly leaping forth, a drifting force, a passing wind.

Jacob Corne Sport and politics - a compelling relationship. Qatar most recently grasped the opportunity to accentuate this belief. Football’s illustrious finale, only months ago, was masked by the thousands of migrant workers who watched from six feet under. Judiciously viewed, one of the game’s greatest showdowns was

Otto Bajwa Greenwood 54 years on from the seditious revolution, which rather farcically began over issues regarding gender mixing in dormitories, France seems less tolerant than ever. May 1968 took France by storm, scrutinising the deeply conservative and patriarchal systems of government under Charles de Gaulle. At the time, many