The first holiday camps had an 'ethos of muscular health as a marker of social respectability, and were alcohol-free. How different from our modern Costa Brava – not to mention the innumerable other coasts around the world now changed forever'.

https://literaryreview.co.uk/from-mont-blanc-to-magaluf

'The authorities are able to detain individuals in solitary confinement for up to six months at a secret location', which 'increases the risk to the prisoner of torture'.

@lucyjpop looks at two cases of China's brutal crackdown on free expression.

https://literaryreview.co.uk/xu-zhiyong-thupten-lodoe

'"The Last Colony" is, among other things, part of the campaign to shift the British position through political pressure. As with all good propaganda, Sands’s case is based in truth, if not the whole of it.'

https://literaryreview.co.uk/empire-strikes-back