Like many of us living in the slowly boiling pot that is 2020, you are likely to have also despaired at the government’s most recent belittling of creativity, independent thinking, and the possibility of an existence beyond STEM spurned by this week’s much-memed, much-maligned adverts for professional retraining in the vague field of ‘cyber’. Sparking […]
To read Frank O’Hara’s ‘Having a Coke with You’ is to infatuate yourself with the beautiful impermanence of the everyday. Included in his 1965 collection Lunch Poems – a series of poems written on the fly during his lunch breaks – it captures O’Hara’s trademark spontaneity and stream-of-consciousness interaction with the present moment, inspired by […]
Another day, another Brexit-related constitutional crisis. This week saw the Prime Minister Boris Johnson (who is noticeably without a mandate) prorogue parliament — trying to stop Members of Parliament from blocking a no-deal Brexit next month. So we face the question: how well can our parliamentary representatives enact the democratic desires of the public as […]
When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir promises to shed light on an often misunderstood social movement. Co-written by activist and journalist asha bandele and Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Khan-Cullors, it gets to the heart of one of America’s biggest current debates, race, and details how to carry the historic […]