I found heaven in the ‘Hawaii of Europe’ — but the clock is ticking
A beautiful collection of islands in the middle of the Atlantic.
I love that Joker: Folie à Deux sticks a middle finger up at incels
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
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
Kenya is a magnificent canvas of a country.
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
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
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
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?
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
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
How can France have a meaningful discussion about race if they can't even measure discrimination?
Never Have I Ever shouldered the burden of dismantling every stereotype
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?
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
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
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
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?
Dear ‘woke’ celebrities: How to respond to criticism, and why it matters
Recently, the publishing world has been abuzz with Jeanine Cumming’s novel American Dirt—a novel that follows the story of a Mexican mother and her young son fleeing cartels and immigrating to the United States in a climate that highly resembles Trump’s America.
Meghan Markle, and the British media’s defensiveness around race
Ever since Meghan Markle and Prince Harry announced their decision to step back as “senior royals,” the media has barely talked about anything else. The ‘stunning’ decision has been met by a strong sense of ‘shock’ by much of the media. But when the subject of racist coverage being a factor in the couple’s decision is raised, it is met with vitriolic defensiveness.
WATCH OUT, 2020! WHAT MEDIA TRENDS SHOULD YOU KEEP AN EYE ON?
The roaring twenties have just begun. We have left behind a decade where online media morphed from being about sharing holidays snaps and poking our Facebook friends, to a defining influence of global politics, social conversations and our mental and emotional wellbeing. What should we expect from the next decade?
Is There Any Way Back Now?
Local Catalans believe that Madrid’s behaviour towards Catalonia have left Spain’s richest region with no choice but to declare independence.