An alternative take on the week's news
I spend every day trawling through the news and, if I'm honest, it can be a tough slog. So I have decided that Wednesday, hump day, will be the good news day on the website. I will find the good news and place it here. If there is good news that you know about, email... Continue Reading →
We'll start today with a game of Did You Know? Did you know that: Worldwide, men are committing suicide at four times the rate of women? Barring Costa Rica, Colombia and the Indian state Himachal Pradesh, girls are outperforming boys in school worldwide, regardless of socioeconomic factors? In the UK, Boys are over three times more... Continue Reading →
"I'm diabetic...[but] I don't support it." Patrice O'Neal - Elephant in the Room One of my favourite questions is: "tell me about yourself". It is one of the most intimate things you can ask someone. How would you answer it? By leading with your job? Relationship status? Political leanings? Music you like? What about the... Continue Reading →
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 →
The Black Unicorn 