The Great Game In 1878 Benjamin Disraeli returned from the Congress of Berlin with what was thought to be ‘Peace in the Balkans’ and an extra piece to add to the British Empire’s Eastern Mediterranean jigsaw: Cyprus. The Island was ceded to Britain by the Ottomans following no less than Read more…
Everyday a theatrical set piece takes place between the swaggering armies of Pakistan and India as border gates between the two countries at are slammed shut for the night. Performance with a purpose It’s a performance with purpose: a ritualistic face-off, a presentation of power politics. Once one people the Read more…
Take a look at maps of the world before and after the age of colonial cartography and you will notice a stark contrast. Before colonialism boundaries were largely amorphous, curved and fluid; afterwards they were rigid, straight and intransigent. At the turn of this century the lines that cut the globe Read more…