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Appreciation / 1 December 2025
1 December 2025

DAVID HORSLEY reflects on the impact of the great Jamaican singer songwriter and actor Jimmy Cliff

(L to R) Philip Ahn and Anna May Wong in film Daughter of Shanghai,1937; poster for Daughter of the Dragon, 1931  Pics: Paramount Pictures/Public domain
Cinema / 3 September 2025
3 September 2025

DAVID HORSLEY recommends a season dedicated to groundbreaking Chinese-American actor and film maker Anna May Wong

IN THE BEGINING: Carnival band photo taken by Dr Ted Hill, in Port of Spain in the early 1950s and made available in public domain by his son John Hill
Features / 23 August 2025
23 August 2025

DAVID HORSLEY reminds us of the roots and staying power of one of the most iconic festivals around

TENDENTIOUS: Illustration of the Cardiff riots from the Illustrated Police News, June 19 1919 - note the depiction of the black man as a knife-wielding assailant / Pic: Public domain
Racism / 15 August 2025
15 August 2025

White racist rioting has many an infamous precedent in Britain, writes DAVID HORSLEY

The SS Bremen
History / 28 July 2025
28 July 2025

DAVID HORSLEY remembers communist seaman Bill Bailey, the ‘Kid from Hoboken,’ whose heroics in tearing down a swastika flag from a ship’s mast inspired early anti-fascist resistance

LEST WE FORGET: Memorial plaque to Werner Seelenbinder in Be
BOOKS / 15 May 2020
15 May 2020
Revelatory accounts of courageous Germans who resisted the nazis during WWII