Measure for Measure (Cygnet Youth Theatre Company, Exeter)

Measure for Measure is one of Shakespeare’s ‘problem’ plays: neither comedy nor tragedy, but a meditation on power, that ends … More

On the rack over torture (2001)

MOSCOW – Russia’s first chicken came home to roost at the European Court of Human Rights in late November, when … More

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights was signed on 10 December nearly sixty years ago, and the European Human Rights … More

“A word already spoken, lives on”, Academician Andrei Sakharov said from exile in the dark days of 1980. “The human … More

Tatyana Velikanova’s intelligent smiling face came out of the shadows only in 1979 when she was arrested for the most … More

Alexander Blok died on 7 August and Nikolay Gumilyov twenty days later, but for me they both died on August … More

Visitors to the Strasbourg Cathedral tower may be surprised to confront this immense clock, screened by glass and occupying half … More

by Osip MANDELSTAM (1925) I would rather not talk about me, but track the route of the age. The roar … More

Short Story (1990) Black people lived on one side of the row and white people on the other, with their … More

Selected by Irina SAFRONOVA. I have decided to make public some excerpts from Marjorie’s diary covering her last years of … More

From Marjorie’s exercise book: Lancaster Girls’ Grammar School, Class 4J (1967-1968) 1967 October 17th: …The dictionary definition of the word … More

It was raining wet diggety on the way to my father’s funeral. My wipers didn’t know which way to turn. … More

THE DOOR It is like a door that won’t open until you have tried it many many times. I first … More

JOHN He was old-fashioned that boy. When he spotted me on his bike he honked his horn with his fair … More

by Marjorie FARQUHARSON (1977) Matthew’s gospel treats Christ as king. He has come to announce the Kingdom of God to … More