It’s Been A Minute…
It’s been two years since I last wrote a blog post. My last post was published on New Year’s Day in 2022, and in it I mentioned starting the year with a sense of (cautious) optimism. Well, I can’t lie, life…
2022: New Year, New Thing?
It’s the start of a new year. A time for us to reflect on what has been and set resolutions for what will (hopefully) be. I know I’m not alone in saying that 2021 was a long and tumultuous year….
Me and My ‘Mental Ruts’
So, it’s been quite some time since I last wrote a blog post. It’s been a funny few months for me, as I can imagine it has been for many people. We are still in the middle of a deadly…
Windrush: The Ongoing Battle for Justice
Three years after the scandal broke in the media, the battle for justice for the Windrush Generation continues. The news of the Windrush Scandal caused huge outrage from people on all points on the political spectrum, thus forcing the government…
Putting Up Resistance: How to Get Involved
Since the beginning of 2020 it seems like there has been just one tragedy after another. The pandemic. The government’s mishandling of it, causing over 120,000 deaths. George Floyd. Breonna Taylor. The performative responses to the BLM protests. The murders…
Windrush: A Further Update
The Windrush Generation is STILL fighting for justice. I’m going to keep this post brief and limit it to events that have transpired in the last few months. Why? Because if you’ve been reading this blog for a while you…
Fruit of the Lemon and the Stories of Our Elders
Synopsis “Faith Jackson fixes herself up with a great job in TV and the perfect flatshare. But neither is that perfect – and nor are her relations with her overbearing, though always loving family. Furious and perplexed when her parents…
How to Get Your Reading Mojo Back
When the world first began to properly grapple with COVID-19 and we went into lockdown, some of us pledged to use that time to work on ourselves: to learn a new language or instrument, to learn to cook, or to…
2021: My Bookish Goals
At the end of 2019 I wrote a post detailing my reading pledges for 2020. This was, of course, pre-pandemic and I was looking forward to the new year and feeling hopeful. Suffice it to say, I didn’t meet those…
Priti Patel and the Dangers of the Home Office
Another week, another example of despicable and dangerous behaviour from the Home Office. As you all ought to be aware, on 2Â December a deportation flight to Jamaica took off. It was dubbed #Jamaica50 on Twitter and Instagram because 50 people…