An alternative take on the week's news
"Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two makes four. If that is granted, all else follows" George Orwell - 1984 I've been thinking a lot about echo chambers and social media and Brexit and Trump and the world that we live in. It seems on almost all issues, we have become polarised. Nuance... Continue Reading →
"It's just an observation I can't ignore, But people should smile more" Newton Faulkner - People Should Smile More I had a momentous thing happen to me today. It changed the course of my life and therefore the course of history itself. For context, I was already having a good day. I had had lunch with... Continue Reading →
What to make of the case of Lavinia Woodward? For those of you not in the know, Ms Woodward was spared jail after she flew into a drunken rage and attacked her then boyfriend who she met on Tinder. My first reaction when I heard the case was cynicism: this was another example of prejudice... Continue Reading →
My favourite part of 2018 is seeing people be shocked that something abhorrent is still happening in 2018. Whether disability discrimination, misogyny, homophobia or racism, 2018 has been a reminder that ideas that many believed had been consigned to the past are very much alive. There are some that disagree with the view that I... Continue Reading →
"How can you care about anything when you know every god damn thing?" Dave Chappelle - The Age of Spin On January 16 1865, General William Tecumseh Sherman, One of the commanders of the United States Army, issued Special Field Order No. 15. It famously confiscated 400,000 acres of land in the southern states and... Continue Reading →
The Black Unicorn 