Author: marinasb

We will soon say goodbye to a most unsettling year. Not necessarily personally but in the sense of the seismic shift in world affairs that has caused us all to question so much of what we took for granted in our lifetimes and the generally accepted value system. Truth be told, change has been gathering […]

Last Tuesday was Human Rights Day. It marked the end of 16 days of global activism against domestic violence against women. Last week, I signalled the growing trend of girls and young women wanting to return to the days when women were kept by men. In Sweden, 14 per cent of seven-14-year olds want to […]

I walked into my brother’s New York apartment after midnight. It was deliciously warm, although nobody had been staying in it for many weeks. The temperature outside was below seven degrees Celsius. I had been silently dreading entering an icebox, which is what would have greeted me if it were London or most places in […]