The artificial village that could solve travel’s biggest problem
MetroUK: El Gouna is everything I normally dislike: a resort town with luxury hotels and a lack of historical depth. But, in large pockets of the town, something special is happening.
I visited the tiny island that is Italy’s best kept secret and you can avoid the summer crowds
The Sun: Ustica, a tiny island about 30 miles north of Palermo and probably Sicily’s best-kept secret.
I found heaven in the ‘Hawaii of Europe’ — but the clock is ticking
MetroUK: A beautiful collection of islands in the middle of the Atlantic.
Why Ridley Scott’s 2005 Crusader flop is a far superior film to Gladiator
MetroUK: Kingdom of Heaven should rank among the very best of the historical epics
I love that Joker: Folie à Deux sticks a middle finger up at incels
MetroUK: Joker: Folie à Deux pulls no punches, and targets some of the incel fans of the first movie
1,000,000 died in 100 days of slaughter. How Rwanda still bears the scars of genocide 30 years on
MetroUK: How Rwanda astonishingly achieved peace and reconciliation in just three decades
Only on a Kenyan safari could you see an elephant wander freely past a football pitch
MetroUK: Visiting the magnificent and magical Kenya.
My dad only wanted to help kids in Rwanda, but when I met the people he had helped, I understood the impact of white saviourism
MetroUK: 12 years after my dad's death, I returned to Rwanda to meet the boy he had sponsored and see the impact of his actions.
Iftar at Shakespeare’s Globe is a reminder of England’s forgotten relationship with Islam
The Evening Standard: After Elizabeth I was excommunicated she began to build links with the Islamic world, which is reflected in some of Shakespeare’s plays
From Broadway To Hollywood: ‘In The Heights’ aims to break the barriers of Latinx representation
Media Diversity Institute: Until a Hollywood film accurately represents the Latinx community, there will still be representation battles left to fight, and the glass ceiling will remain in place.
Writing The Other: Can literature escape the criticism of cultural appropriation?
Media Diversity Institute: Imagination might be key to fiction, but during a time of reckoning in regards to race, how much longer will literature remain out there alone, when other forms of entertainment have moved on?
As the media has a reckoning on race and gender, it’s time to also talk about class
Media Diversity Institute: How does the British media get away with such insulting representations of working class people?
Black, Blanc, Beur: How French secularism suppresses important conversations about race
Media Diversity Institute: How can France have a meaningful discussion about race if they can't even measure discrimination?
Yellow Filter: A Cinematic Technique or Pushing Stereotypes?
Media Diversity Institute: When does artistic creativity cross the line into pushing stereotypes?
Never Have I Ever shouldered the burden of dismantling every stereotype
Media Diversity Institute: Does it matter that "Never Have I Ever" doesn't explore social caste?
Covid-19 has had a disproportionate impact on women. How should the media cover this?
Media Diversity Institute: Is COVID-19--and the lockdown--going to affect women, and gender equality in the long term?
India and CoronaJihad: When Islamophobia, a pandemic, and the media collide.
In the space of a few weeks, many in India have quickly linked the outbreak of the coronavirus to the Muslim population.
Mental Health: How to combat stigmatisation and normalisation
Media Diversity Institute: Caroline Flack’s suicide sent shockwaves across the UK, reigniting a debate about how the media covers suicide and mental health.
Press harassment, IPSO’s ineffectiveness, and why we’re no closer to fixing it
Media Diversity Institute: The ethics, culture and practices of the British press have been thrown into question once again following the death of Caroline Flack. But, haven’t we asked these exact questions before? And how are we back here?
How the media needs to reframe Britain’s homelessness crisis
Media Diversity Institute: If you have recently read an article, or watched a news broadcast about homelessness, chances are that you haven’t been shown real people, or heard their individual stories. Instead, you’ve read numbers and statistics, and perhaps seen generic images of people sleeping in tents on city streets. Does this impact the way we relate to some of the most vulnerable people in our society?