Welcome to the new normal
This is not normal. That’s what many continue to chant under their breath in the Trump era as the institutional norms of America crumble around us. One only needs to look to the much talked about...
Category: Commentary
A man you’ve never heard of died. Here’s how he changed the world
I’m disabled but I don’t have a disability. For a long while, I was both disabled and able-bodied at the same time. Does that sound like it doesn’t make any sense? Let me explain. I know that...
Let them eat bullets?
“They're talking about tomatoes, aubergines, peppers. But just think about the price of bullets. Think of what the cost is to equip our soldiers to fight terrorists. But you're still talking about...
Limbo in Beldangi: The Forgotten Lhotshampa of Bhutan
Half an hour outside of the small dusty town of Damak in eastern Nepal is a tiny bamboo village. This town is almost thirty years old, yet does not exist on Nepali maps. Its name has a number at the...
Karl Lagerfeld is dead. Let’s talk about his legacy of hateful comments.
Having the luxury to have your work separated from your negative actions as an individual, is the one of the many, many, many definitions of “white male privilege”. And one of the prime examples...
What Sally Challen’s appeal tells us about coercive control
In 2010, Sally Challen, after suffering decades of emotional abuse at the hands of her husband, killed him (with a hammer, the tabloids love to describe). She was convicted of murder and many...
#WednesdayWisdom: What needs to happen at the North Korea summit, explained
I know what you’re thinking — ”Another North Korea summit? But wasn’t the great dealmaker in chief supposed to have solved everything with the last one?” I mean, sure. He was. Kind of. But...
Shamima Begum should be brought home; statelessness is no solution
Four years ago, three British schoolgirls left the country and made their way to Syria to support the so-called Islamic State (aka IS, ISIS, ISIL, Daesh). Aged just 15, they had each been groomed...
London’s surprisingly open drug scene destigmatises a taboo topic
Almost four years ago I moved to London, filled with excitement of living in one of the most electrifying cities in the world. I was eighteen, just starting university and filled to the brim with...
Bill Maher is out of touch. I still can’t stop watching him.
Bill Maher is one of those entertainment figures who seems able to sidestep any controversy. His random drop of the n-word last year interviewing Nebraskan Senator Ben Sasse, for instance, would have...