Mara Nale-JoakimThe outer and inner narrativeHow does one quickly evaluate the honesty, credibility and the respectability of a cause, movement or organisation? One simple way is to…8 min read·Jan 13, 2024----
Mara Nale-JoakimIndividual and collective responsibilityHow do we view people significantly unlike us? As individuals or as a ‘they’, an amorphous homogeneous collective? And how do we respond…7 min read·Jan 5, 2024----
Mara Nale-JoakimLeftwashingI watched ‘Maestro’, the recent film about the life of the great American conductor Leonard Bernstein and his wife, Felicia Montealegre…4 min read·Dec 25, 2023----
Mara Nale-JoakimThe politics of risk“The nature of prejudice is to seek out the extreme and the hypothetical and use it to tar an entire minority in order to lay the…7 min read·Dec 5, 2022----
Mara Nale-JoakimGender critical beliefs — a jargon-buster.Gender Critical (GC) feminists are essentialists, viewing sex as a binary, rejecting the view that gender identity exists, describing…42 min read·Dec 2, 2022----
Mara Nale-JoakimUkraine — 8 months onSo, 8 months on, Ukraine are striking back.10 min read·Oct 24, 2022----
Mara Nale-JoakimThe Ukrainian Patriotic WarToday is Victory Day in Russia, a time to remember the past. For the last two months, I wondered what previous conflicts to compare the…9 min read·May 9, 2022----
Mara Nale-JoakimUkraine — the siege of MariupolThis is Ukraine’s Blitz. Failing to secure a military victory on the ground, Putin is resorting to indiscriminate bombing — much like…10 min read·Mar 21, 2022----
Mara Nale-JoakimUkraine — a week laterThe nightmare continues. The unthinkable is becoming real. The unlikely is becoming the expected. The shocking is becoming the everyday…7 min read·Mar 7, 2022----
Mara Nale-JoakimUkraineIt is quite surreal to even be writing this. A major war in Europe, street fighting in a European capital, old history books suddenly the…8 min read·Mar 1, 2022----