Weekly Roundup: New frontiers for football, Notre-Dame, and Trump
Mesut Ozil and Sead Kolasinac pawns in gang war On the 25th of July, footage was widely dispersed of Arsenal fullback, Sead Kolasinac, chasing off knife-wielding carjackers in Golders Green, while Mesut Ozil fled from the vehicle. Kolasinac was heralded by Arsenal fans all over social media. And tha
Memories of a teen soldier
The Situation Ukraine has always been a battleground between the East and the West. In 2014, in a new spiral of the centuries-old geopolitical gamble, Russia annexed the strategically vital Crimean peninsula from Ukraine. It did so after the leaders of the pro-western Revolution of Dignity overthrew
Overnight Delivery
It’s a strange courage you give me, ancient star: Shine alone in the sunrise toward which you lend no part! – William Carlos Williams Ricardo couldn’t decide whether the swell seemed quiet this evening, or if he was losing his hearing because he was sixty-five. He reflected on the a
Eden
alone with each other in a rain cloud drops fall in random formations like stars as they drift in the unarranged heaven so near to us – the empty weight of space bends everything towards you as you smile and mention my eyes i don’t remember yours so look again caught in a fragmented atomic [&hel
WEEKLY ROUNDUP: FIRES, EXTINCTION, AND TONI MORRISON
Black man led through the streets by white policeman on horseback in Texas On Monday night, the police chief of Galveston Texas, Vernon L. Hale III apologised publicly after footage emerged of mounted police leading a black man along the street by a rope. He said: “First and
Moving Towards Architectural Forgiveness in Poland
Following the Second World War, when nearly ninety percent of Warsaw was reduced to rubble, the city was rebuilt according to the vision of socialist realism and Stalinist classicism. The architectural zenith of this vision was undoubtedly the central Pałac Kultury i Nauki (PKiN), which has since e
Weekly Roundup: Mass Shootings, Prime Minister Boris, and Saudi Feminism
Back to back mass shootings in the USA Yesterday, it was reported that there had been a mass shooting in El Paso, Texas, with 20 killed and at least two dozen injured. This morning, it was reported that 9 people were killed in a shooting in Dayton, Ohio. The suspect in the El Paso shooting [&helli
Dirty Laundry
Decode the skin cells on the back of the bras you hooked and unhooked Monday to Friday excavate a jumper and seduce a coil of hair from wool like unstitching a tapestry – notice how this is a small history of things that stopped you from being naked There is a hidden knowledge in veiling […
[Not-So] Subtle Asian Traits
A 2am Facebook notification was the gateway to hours scrolling away and lecture slots suppressing my laughter. My cousin, a student at Tufts University across the Atlantic, had added me to a Facebook group I’d never even heard of: subtle asian traits. “subtle asian traits” is anything but subt