As George Bush and Tony Blair look determined to take their ‘War On Terror’ to Iraq, Jacob Mukherjee reflects on the mixed messages on war and asylum coming from the British government.
Where are the innovators?
Music is lame. It is so boring.
Multicultural?
Is it not doublethink to blindly respect all faiths and religions, when we know that the great majority of them (including, probably, our own) must be completely wrong?
One Day Diary
The radio gets turned on; the TV channel changed to the news – images of chaos, shock, desperation, ambulances, soldiers, blood…
Documenta XI and The Global Culture
If religion, culture and history have been reduced to ‘nothing’, then how does the individual construct and affirm an understanding of their own identity?
Ten Questions to Paul Boateng
In 2002 Paul Boateng was appointed as Chief Secretary to the Treasury, making him Britain’s first black cabinet minister…