WEEKLY ROUNDUP: BOLIVIA, DA VINCI AND PRINCE ANDREW
Channel 4 airs fresh revelations in ‘The Prince and the Paedophile’ This week, stirrings around Prince Andrew’s involvement with paedophile tycoon Jeffrey Epstein have been revived by an episode of ‘Dispatches’, presented by Cathy Newman and shown by Channel 4. A deeply uncomforta
“I get a constant deluge of death threats”
Robert Mugabe was still alive when I spoke to Peter Tatchell back in late August. We had spoken about the former Zimbabwean President during our conversation, specifically Tatchell’s two attempts at placing Mugabe under citizen’s arrest, first in London in 1999, and again in Brussels in 2001. Af
Reconciling URL and IRL Feminism
I first became acquainted with Miranda July through her fiction. My friend, Scarlet, recommended her critically acclaimed novel, The First Bad Man, which I have since lent to my mother, boyfriend, and best friend. July’s novel is a story of humorous eroticism, habitual patterns, and the search for
WEEKLY ROUNDUP: EXTINCTION REBELLION, RACISM IN FOOTBALL AND BERNIE IS BACK
Extinction Rebellion Takes Legal Action on Protest Ban in London Since International Rebellion’s coordinated protests have swept through more than sixty cities around the world, thousands of environmental activists have been arrested in their efforts to demand for more action on climate chan
WEEKLY ROUNDUP: STORMZY AND WHALES
The ‘Stormzy effect’ at Cambridge Cambridge University has released figures showing that black students made up more than 3% of new undergraduates. Cambridge said 91 black British students had been admitted as first-year undergraduates at the start of the academic year, an increase, an increase
Our Man Abel
(START) Our man Abel cannot sleep. He cannot think. He is writhing and naked on a white sheet on a thin mattress. He cannot sleep because he is psychically aware of the gory misdeeds of others, they saturate his mind like salt in water, in open wounds, as soon as he closes his eyes. […
BAIAE
Noon estranged all living things, Taking black heaven; Sucking in the sea, the (seven) hills. We trek. Irretrievables progressed, are away. We edge off The rim of everything; the sea stasis attends A gull’s catechisms, face wrapped in Evening wedding veils That genuflec
WEEKLY ROUNDUP: BORIS FACES SUPREME COURT JUDGEMENT, TRUMP IMPEACHMENT, AND MORE.
Supreme Court Judgment This Tuesday the Supreme Court ruled unanimously that the Prime Minister Johnson’s prorogation of Parliament was unlawful. The Court was faced the issues of whether the decision to prorogue was “justiciable” (i.e. whether it could be looked at by the court, some politi