It shows up where the limits are. You tell a story, but instead of telling it you should really be doing something to help him. But what? How can anyone help him? Here’s a person, about thirty-five years old, addicted for about twenty - what chance does he have in life? Very bright, very smart Continue Reading

The film may not have a message, but it does have hidden comments, like the Mexican cartoon character Superbarrio Gómez …
Yes, Superbarrio is a superhero and a fighter who was invented by the then opposition party as a figure battling on behalf of poor people against injustices like the housing shortage - a figure people Continue Reading

There’s a brand of journalism that strikes me as being patronising. When it shows poverty, it does so from a stance that doesn’t expect to find anything except poverty. Often that only scratches the surface of people’s actual lives. There are millions of people who live in inconceivably squalid conditions, but even then their way Continue Reading