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