“... Remember the images of Angelina Jolie walking across the stage, hand outstretched to greet William Hague at their ‘summit’ on rape as a war crime in London in 2014? It struck me then that she was being offered as a trade-off or collateral damage in the effort to bring such violence to an end. The initiative is now seen as a costly failure; the ...”

“... 1991 – in London the father worked as a volunteer for the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan. At the William Morris Academy in Hammersmith, where she was a pupil, Heshu repeatedly expressed her fear of a forced marriage, but teachers ignored her. When her parents discovered her relationship with a Christian Lebanese boy, she ran away from home – her ...”

“... politics; on the links between Brazilian and African cultures via Oshosi, the Yoruba spirit of the hunt rendered in Portuguese as ‘Oxóssi’ and syncretised with St Sebastian, the patron saint of Rio de Janeiro; and on the utility of the cultural anthropologist Ernest Becker’s work The Denial of Death in understanding Zidane’s red card in 2006 as a ...”