Corporate greed and the ambitions of the mega rich, we’re told, are destroying our world. But what’s the big deal, to be honest? To paraphrase the immortal genius of Rush Hour: “That world was...
We’re finally approaching the end of the party conference season and this week has seen the Conservative party conference in full flow. It made news when some young conservatives apparently did a...
According to Bureau of Justice statistics, an average of three women a day are murdered by a man who 'loves them'. It doesn't feel like a stretch, if one is venturing to make a suggestion on...
PJ Raval’s Call Her Ganda is a film I’ve been raving about since catching it at Hot Docs last spring. It’s the story of Jennifer Laude – Filipina, trans and a sometime sex worker – whose...
On the morning of September 8, Iran, in a truly unprecedented move, fired seven Fateh-110 short-range ballistic missiles into neighbouring Iraqi Kurdistan. The target was the headquarters of Iranian...
It’s been a tough week for rape and sexual assault survivors across the world. The media, even on this side of the pond, is overwhelmed by coverage of the extraordinary Christine Blasey Ford...
The recent #MeToo years have made me wonder why the sexual assaults I experienced as a teen didn’t have much impact on my life. At first I chalked it up to my own resilience – though now I’ve...
We all want to change the world, but some of us are more prepared for it than others. Sure, you could spend years doing hard work, studying the history of successful revolutions, failed revolutions,...
On the 7th September 2018, Mac Miller (real name Malcolm James McCormick) was found dead of a suspected drug overdose in his LA apartment at the tender age of 26. A respected and talented rapper,...
It was when I found myself mixing sugar-free cocoa powder with fat-free toffee yoghurt that I realised there was a problem. What I wanted was chocolate. Melty, sweet, delicious chocolate. And what I...
