Three thoughts on April 14.
mhsutton I probably could have had a better, more clicky title. Can the crowd save the world? My wife and I had a BBQ today. It started out as my idea…
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I can't write about colonialism or the Commonwealth
I’ve been trying, without success, for the last month to write a blog post on the curse of colonialism and the abomination that is the Commonwealth. As I explore my…
I finally get Trump
I finally get him. He is a terrible United States President. He is also the best one to catalyse the demise of this dying empire.
Day 1: I am Rohingya #51Days
Today as part of my #51days act of solidarity, I shall change my twitter profile to ‘I am Rohingya” The Rohingya are an ethnic group that live in Myanmar –…
51 days of solidarity and advocacy.
There are 51 days until Christmas 2016. For each of those days,I will change my name on Twitter to reflect a cause I want to support and bring some attention…
Je suis Souleymane
A recent incident on the Paris Métro has troubled me ever since I heard the story. Let me summarise what I’ve read from the media. Three men were in a…
#MH370 – Are we believing our own hype?
As the painstaking search for MH370 continues and as families wait desperately for news – any news – of the fate of their loved ones, I can’t help but think…
What happens on #Twitter when someone like #Mandela dies
I was going to title this post – ‘What billions of silent voices screaming at the same time look like’ – but it seemed too dramatic. As I was about…
We Are Frogs in a Pot
Climate change is a no brainer. There are 6+ billion human frogs and untold number of other species in this pot we call earth and it is literally boiling –…
Some nerve.
Peter Mandelson, more recently Lord Mandelson , an unelected cabinet minister in Gordon Brown’s waste of space Labour government today announced the row over the sell off of the UK…