The BBC got it wrong on Naga Munchetty
The BBC is a prized institution that promises impartiality at every turn. This unfortunately often means that when they interview a trans person they also interview a transphobe. That when they...
Category: Essays
What does Russia and Ukraine’s historic prisoner exchange mean?
Moscow and Kiev exchanged 35 prisoners each on Saturday 7 September in a historic occasion that saw the 24 sailors captured in the Kerch Strait in 2018 returned to their families. Those freed by...
Venezuela and broken promises
The current financial crisis has been attributed by Maduro to the Venezuelan opposition and foreign actors, including the United States. It is common to hear government officials speak of the...
Scary monsters and super creeps
I have been fascinated by monsters from an early age. I can’t remember when it started, but at some point during my childhood, I began to think that vampires, phantoms (specifically, the Phantom of...
A triangular geopolitical crisis in Kashmir
Kashmir is no longer a suzerain state. It is now directly under the Indian President’s Union Territory. This isn’t the end, Kashmir has been re-fragmented and the Ladakh region is divided into a...
Recession or not, there’s trouble ahead
America’s “will they, won’t they?” relationship with the next recession is reaching a fever pitch; a recent survey by the National Association for Business Economics finds that nearly 75% of...
Setbacks in Venezuela’s economy: sanctions by the US and the impact on oil
In the early 2000s, Venezuela was living an extensive oil bonanza. With Chávez in power, expenses were also increased when granting bonds to part of the population, making investments in projects...
“No One Saw a Thing” on SundanceTV
Avi Belkin, the director and executive producer behind SundanceTV’s (currently streaming) true crime series No One Saw a Thing, has described his six-part look at a nearly four-decade-old cold...
Zombie Tidal Wave surprisingly excellent successor to the Sharknado throne
I watched Zombie Tidal Wave this weekend fully expecting to hate on it. The sleepy reception of Jim Jarmusch’s The Dead Don’t Die has struck the point home that zombie films are real life dead;...
The memeification of Jacob Rees-Mogg
On Tuesday night, the current Tory government faced a crucial vote on whether the House of Commons would back a bill to block a no-deal Brexit. It was a long day, for sure, and current Leader of the...