On Devotion & The Black Divine
There is a particular panic in the feeling of time moving faster than you can hold it. A moment arrives between things; not before, or after, but in the middle of, suspended—when the body is still, and something in the air is not. It’s July and the sun has arrived stubbornly, prickly and overrip
‘Think more like an Etonian’: The Hidden Curriculum at Oxford
I was not allowed to speak English at home until I was around ten years old. My parents refused to teach it to me at all. My primary school teachers grew concerned and labelled them negligent, but my parents’ intentions were protective. With Darija and Kabyle spoken at home, they wanted to ensure
Two-Tiered Care
‘There’s going to be a lot of people around you, but it’s because we care.’ This is what the nurse said to me before rushing me into emergency surgery at my local hospital. It was the shortest time I had ever spent in the waiting room. The gratification I got when I was hurr
The New Era of Pop and RnB is here – and it’s British
Defining an artist is easy. ‘A person talented in the art of music,’ the Oxford English Dictionary tells me. Yet there is an irony in that definition. The tacit implication of an immutable confinement to convention, telling you exactly what you are and how to be it—a strain on musical culture
