An alternative take on the week's news
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 →
"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 →
The Black Unicorn 