WEEKLY ROUNDUP: HONG KONG CONTINUES, THE AMAZON IS BURNING, AND FAKE TWITTER ACCOUNTS REMOVED.
Fires in the Amazon The Amazon rainforest is burning at the fastest rate since records began in 2013, pictures of the browned and smokey wasteland are rampant on social media. The smoke from the fires is so severe that Sao Paulo is getting dark hours before sunset. Meanwhile Jair Bolsonaro seems lit
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
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
[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
Keeping Tabs
Imagine you’ve committed a crime. You’re going to court. Maybe you’re being accused of murder, or getting involved in a few burglaries. You’re guilty, but you’re desperate to walk free. You’re organising your case with your lawyer, and at a certain point in proceedings you have to pr
Unity in the Face of Imminent Climate Collapse
Roger Hallam is a wiry man – slim but tough. He has dark eyebrows, eyes sunk deep in their sockets, and wisps of hair either side of his face. He’s married, a father. What stands out the most though, when he starts to speak, is that somewhere – not too far beneath the surface – […]
Recentring Death
“It is hard to have patience with people who say, ‘There is no death’ or ‘Death doesn’t matter.’ There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn’t matter.” ― C.S
Sri Lanka Needs a Prayer – But it Also Needs a Revolution
Ten years after the end of Sri Lanka’s civil war, terror has returned to plague our country once more. Police reported 250 deaths and over 500 people injured during a series of eight bomb blasts on Easter Sunday. The attacks took place across a number of locations, including three churches and thr