Excerpt from Shane Thomas’ 2015 article Why Do We Show Such Loyalty To Royalty? When I was about 13, the Caribbean steel band I played in had a gig which included a brief appearance by Prince Charles. I recall our manager being adamant that we had to be on our best behaviour. This wasn’t new –… Read More
“Some People Are Gaysian – Get Over It!”
Article first published in February 2015 by Khakan Qureishi Last year, I participated in a project whose aim was to explore the issues surrounding people who identify as LGBT amongst South Asian communities in the UK. The interviewer asked the following three questions: 1) Why are LGBT South Asians still “hidden”? 2) Why aren’t there… Read More
Bad enough MPs are gaslighting us about food poverty, will the trolls please just stop?
In October 2020 former barrister and legal skills lecturer Snigdha Nag wrote a viral twitter thread imploring the internet to “stop quoting pasta prices”. In 2022 as we are submerged in a ‘Cost of Living Crisis’ and food poverty is a reality for millions the government’s response is to gaslight us. Now Snigdha wants to… Read More
True Victims of Domestic Abuse Don’t Have Teeth
by Jacinta Nandi True victims of domestic abuse don’t have teeth like her, did you see her teeth shitty evil teeth narc teeth bitch teeth True victims of domestic abuse don’t have eyes like her, did you see her eyes sharp eyes evil eyes cold eyes witch eyes True victims of domestic violence don’t have… Read More
A beginner’s guide to freelance writing
Picture credit: setapp.com Taj Ali’s guide to freelance writing for those who have no idea where to start If you’re interested in getting into freelance writing but don’t know where to start, this is the guide for you. You don’t need any formal qualifications to get started and it’s never too early or too late… Read More
The Colour of Madness: ‘The mental health system is not designed with us in mind’
Kiri Kankhwende talks to the editors of a groundbreaking new anthology about BAME mental health @madomasi Read More
The Student to Activist Pipeline and Its Flaws
Trauma-informed yoga guide, Taimour Ahmed stresses the importance of retaining our physical, mental and spiritual wellbeing as activists, proposing that we need as many healers as we do fighters and people can be both 2022 marks a decade since I became politicised. It’s been a transformative ten years, and I’m now thirty-two. In those ten… Read More
Labour’s local election lies and the sham of democracy
Exasperated socialist Simon Vessey has had enough of Labour’s local election campaign lies and the resulting sham of democracy where entire communities of working class and marginalised people have no chance at true representation via the major parties The truth about Barnet In early April, Labour launched their local election campaign in Barnet at an… Read More
The Tories’ Economic Model Kills the Most Vulnerable
Samantha Asumadu taking cue from an investigation by Tortoise Media urges us on International Workers Memorial Day to remember those who died because of the economic model that brutally oppresses the working class Today is International Workers Memorial Day. Never heard of it? There’s a reason for that. The workers we need to commemorate, who… Read More
Bend It Like Beckham, Blair and Trade Unionism
Assessing Bend It Like Beckham in the social and political context of Blairism, Sacha Ismail considers the Gate Gourmet industrial dispute at Heathrow and union bureaucracies’ longstanding failure to fight for workers, particularly black, brown and migrant workers I must have watched Bend It Like Beckham a dozen times – most recently on the twentieth… Read More
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