A Call to ActionThis summer, the country endured a series of racist attacks that were perhaps the most vivid expression of hatred we’ve witnessed in…Oct 11, 2024Oct 11, 2024
Writing a new chapter of hopeFirst came the trauma. Then the fight. Now the hope.Aug 9, 2024Aug 9, 2024
Resisting the Rwanda ActIt’s a Monday morning like any other for most of us, but not for everyone. Outside Portswood police station dozens of men and women seeking…May 24, 2024May 24, 2024
Saving the VennyIn my mind’s eye it was a vast space, an epic playground that would take forever to run from end to end. I’m talking about Newtown…Apr 24, 2024Apr 24, 2024
Brown face in a white room“My response to racism is anger. I have lived with that anger, ignoring it, feeding upon it, learning to use it before it laid my visions…Mar 13, 2024Mar 13, 2024
Gaza, Barclays, the climate crisis and meI remember the moment when the realisation hit me, and it hit like a punch to the gut. Early in the conflict in Gaza, two news reports in…Jan 31, 2024Jan 31, 2024
Free speech isn’t freeJimmy Carr returns to perform at the city’s Mayflower Theatre next month, and so it seems like an opportune time to revisit his joke about…Apr 16, 20221Apr 16, 20221
A Hidden Humanitarian CrisisAs we watch in horror as an immense refugee crisis unfolds in Ukraine, this seems like an apt time to remind ourselves of the often untold…Mar 1, 2022Mar 1, 2022
Climate change and conflict in AfghanistanIt feels like misdirection that the climate movement continues to view the crisis in reductive terms: the earth heats and then people die…Oct 8, 2021Oct 8, 2021
