An alternative take on the week's news
At the start of the academic year, I was a panel member at Sheffield University "ACS Great Debate Tour". There were two civil servants in the audience, who had been invited to speak to the audience about career opportunities in their profession and the first thing they did was to acknowledge their whiteness. More on... Continue Reading →
Music has always been a great way to bring people together. This Black History Month, I wanted to take a whistle stop tour through 20 years of black British music. The dance scene of the 90’s had morphed from acid house, to the Ministry of Sound inspired house music (with the inimitable sound of MC... Continue Reading →
I learned many things in my years as a teacher. A big one was that 18 year old girls are younger in the mind than society allows them to be. This has been on my mind this week with allegations that Drake is dating an 18 year old model and giving relationship advice to a... Continue Reading →
I spent the morning watching City of Joy, a documentary set in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), about a centre of the same name, that is opened in Bukavu, to work with female victims of the war that have suffered an almost unbearable amount. I wrote this on Twitter directly afterwards: https://twitter.com/Angelo3000k/status/1038014236797095936 I don't know... Continue Reading →
October 2006 may go down as one of the all time great album release months for music. This millennium anyway. The entire year of 1977 is untouchable. Seriously. Pick a month (February - Ed). Ok, here's the February 1977 playlist. Say goodbye to the next 34 minutes of your life. https://open.spotify.com/user/gelstarz/playlist/1SnM08JIhw5RkOTmX1CHo0?si=Sptq2rCtSQC5FzHO4j6ZzA A random month and we have... Continue Reading →
The Black Unicorn 