Jeff Rich

Revolution is the political dream of modernity. But the candle of modernity has burned out. Despite the modern longing for revolution, in its many forms - to overthrow the elites, to replace the system, to put the people united in charge, to transvalue all values, to remake the world in accordance with our perceived reality - the dream will not last our waking to a new day of history. The Revolution will not be televised. It will not ever happen, again.

In this penultimate reading from Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness, the narrator, Marlow confronts and establishes an intimate connection with Kurtz, despite his troubled state of mind. “Believe me or not, his intelligence was perfectly clear - concentrated, it is true upon himself with horrible intensity, yet clear . . . But his soul was mad.” Conrad, Heart of Darkness, p.

From 30 July 2026, migration panic spread from one of the Pillars of Hercules across four continents in response to 70,000 irregular border entries from Morocco to the Spanish African territorial enclave of Ceuta. Beneath the headlines, this incident contains some deeper strands of migration, decolonisation, and how contemporary fragmented societies construct cohesive political myths of belonging.