Caspar Melville

Caspar Melville is editor of the New Humanist magazine. He was Executive Editor and co-editor of the Media & the Net theme on openDemocracy.

Translating difference: a debate about multiculturalism

A joint openDemocracy / British Council debate Humans are not the same. But to survive we need to cooperate, to organise, to establish connections that will help us prosper. Humankind has

By Caspar Melville and Martin Rose

/ 30 Jun 2004

In an African voice: a profile of Sorious Samura

Sorious Samura has become one of the more familiar African journalists on television in recent years, at least to viewers of CNN, and the UKs Channel 4. Did I

By Caspar Melville

/ 5 Feb 2004

A carnival history

The Notting Hill Carnival is the largest street festival in Europe, attracting two million people. Taking place annually over the August bank holiday weekend, the Carnival transforms a rectangle of

By Caspar Melville

/ 3 Sep 2002

Notting Hill walkabout

Maybe you werent in London this year, and are unlikely to go in the future. Let me, if I may, recommend a route through Carnival, which will help describe

By Caspar Melville

/ 3 Sep 2002

Brass monkeys

Those of you who are not resident in the UK may not be aware that we are suffering another one of our periodic moral panics. A wailing and gnashing of

By Caspar Melville

/ 29 Jul 2001

Jennifer Lopez: my part in her downfall

In the early summer of 1999 I was asked by the editor of a now defunct London music magazine, Touch, if I wanted to fly to New York to interview

By Caspar Melville

/ 13 Jun 2001

He who pays the piper...

Speaking of public service and its futures, readers might like to know that there is a 1999 corporate survey tucked away on the BBC website called Public Service Around The

By Caspar Melville

/ 20 May 2001