The UK General Election in June of this year turned around with some quite unexpected results. One of these, on the other side of my city, was the former Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg being beaten...
“No. Absolutely not. You cannot move into that apartment. Do you know how much I’ll worry about you if you do? Absolutely not.” Standing on a street corner in Brooklyn, in front of a bank I was...
As Spooky Season reaches its peak and we enter the transition into cider and “should I turn the heat on now?” season, allow me now to take you on a nostalgic journey through one of my favorite...
The 1997 mass suicide of the Heaven’s Gate cult in Rancho Santa Fe, California, remains the largest such action ever committed on American soil. Believing that their alien allies would arrive in...
Good morning! In case you missed it, our most popular post last week was Louise Hung's exploration of the RAISE Act, a piece of anti-immigrant legislation with interesting similarities to the Chinese...
Some years ago, I sat on a bench in the city centre and the man sitting next to me looked at me, looked at my walking stick, and said “Get off your arse and get a job”. I told him I had a job. He...
There’s no way around it: Donald Trump’s “Great America” is a “White America”. This is nothing new (for Trump or frankly, US history). But with Trump’s ban on immigrants from largely...
Woody Allen is right, there’s a witch-hunt going on. A witch-hunt against rapists. We can call it a rapist-hunt for short. With Harvey Weinstein being outed as a serial harasser of women and an...
U.S. pharmacy chain CVS has recently updated their policy on opioid pain medications as a means of helping to combat the opioid abuse and addiction epidemic. A statement released on the company’s...
Good morning, gentle readers! The best way to start off the week is with some rich longreads, so, naturally, we've got your back with a mix of some of the things we're loving this week — but in a...
