Shibuya hospital
August 31st 2017. Tokyo City, Shibuya hospital second floor There is an incredibly ominous feeling that accompanies knowing the exact place you are to die. I have been lying in the same spot for nearly a year now. Tubes snake their way under the blankets, latching onto me in humiliating place
Empire Adrift
Ten years ago, I saw one of the most memorable sights of my entire childhood. I remember a column of bright red coming slowly into view round a bend in the road, progressing methodically to the beat of a drum. Cream pith helmets, golden sword hilts and medals gleamed in the sun. At the head [&hellip
Tomorrow: A Blueprint
Kerbside, night, and someone who’s not quite you, don’t worry, I’m not quite me either. and rain, and left a taxi pulls away, with that where’s-home ache in its eyes. she’ll light a cigarette, her hands cradling warmth: need met in clinging. oh and neon draped like a frame, meaning somethi
There has to be more to being than buying
My coworker at the Public Theatre in New York’s Astor Place assured me that this afternoon’s show would be one of the weirder ones. “You don’t know Reverend Billy? Oh this guy’s a real treat. Kind of a crazy East Village legend, but I’m still not really sure if he’s a real reverend or
India, unafraid.
tw: mentions of sexual assault, violence, rape 16th December 2012 – a day that started like any other, but which now marks a turning point in the struggle for women’s rights in India. In South Delhi, 23 year-old physiotherapy intern Jyoti Singh climbed aboard a bus with her male friend. They
Battered Bodhrán
I worked at the Battered Bodhrán on Hackney Road. Six days a week, I’d come in at 7pm and leave shortly after we closed at one in the morning. They paid me seven pounds per hour, which added up to roughly a thousand a month, or nine-fifty after National Insurance. Of that, seven-fifty went on [&h
Elitism and Traditionalism in Modern Britain
Britain is often heralded as one of the most successful societies in modern human history. We peer out at the world and recoil from the dictatorships and the oppressive regimes that we see, glad that we are not one of them. But British politics has serious problems of its own, and they should not be
Arrests!
sunday march 17th 1968, grosvenor square and old don came through the coach door like a sack of coal and sat and shook on the front seat wiping hair and blood off his eyes and above, it was glass and steel which is America thakyouverymuch and away through our windows friends in knots struggle