An alternative take on the week's news
Ugh. In 17 months, the President of the United States has watched as 300,000 people have been deported from the country. Per The Marshall Project: [About] 60 percent of them were immigrants with no criminal conviction or whose only crime was immigration-related, such as illegal entry or re-entry. Twenty-one percent were convicted of nonviolent crimes... Continue Reading →
Below is a selection of tweets that have come across my timeline in the last 12 hours: https://twitter.com/aurabogado/status/1009409914605834240 https://twitter.com/mrjamesob/status/1009704699291893760 https://twitter.com/nytimesworld/status/1009690116988850176 https://twitter.com/StanCollymore/status/1009452909271093249 There are days when I struggle to write. I tell myself that writing about any of the above topics is pointless. Pointless because I convince myself that most people have a universal moral compass... Continue Reading →
In 2004, I was seconds away from death. I was in a car, on the way to London for a night out. The music was playing and my friends and I were singing loudly. On the M2, there is a bridge that is notorious for amplifying the effects of the wind. The road was wet... Continue Reading →
Yesterday, we looked at one of the biggest unanswered questions of our time: does Beyoncé only have two songs, "I Need a Man" and "I don't need a man"? Today, we look at Destiny's Child second album, "The Writing's on the Wall". Now, I have two sisters and a mum, and this album holds a special place... Continue Reading →
This was supposed to be the week where I led off by talking about the World Cup, one of the great unifying events in the global calendar. But then, Beyoncé and Jay Z went and released a double album and shook the very foundations of the world (they didn’t, but members of the Beyhive would... Continue Reading →
The Black Unicorn 