Mar 13, 2021Women’s Safety is a Men’s Issue.March 2021 — it’s still not safe for women on the streets of the United Kingdom. Spoiler: I’m a Man. Women’s safety: This is a men’s problem. This is a parenting issue. This is about how we raise our boys. This is about a society that still tolerates the mass objectification of women (and now to a much smaller extent, some Men) — a society that…Sarah Everard3 min readSarah Everard3 min read
Feb 24, 2021Shakshuka NouveauThis dish is designed to be a slight twist on the original to bring out more flavour from the ingredients, it’s also designed to be the winter edition using tinned tomatoes Ingredients: 1 Onion 1 400G Tin of peeled chopped tomatoes (whole ones are ok) 40g butter 40ml olive oil …Shakshuka1 min readShakshuka1 min read
Jan 13, 2021Tomato BulgurYears ago when I lived in North London we used to regularly make pilgrimages down to green lanes where there were plenty of Turkish restaurants and when there we’d typically order some various starters which were all of exceptional quality maybe a Lahmashun and then when it came to Kebab…Bulgur2 min readBulgur2 min read
Dec 22, 20202020 for the Conservative PartyCongratulations to the Conservative Party who form the UK Government. You’ve really outdone yourselves this year. Whilst you tried and failed to provide school meals for the poorest children (thanks Marcus Rashford) you have managed to completely mismanage the public health response to the C-19 outbreak, you claimed that “taking…Uk Government2 min readUk Government2 min read
Nov 23, 2020A Pandemic PostcardTbilisi, Georgia, November 2020 The story of the Pandemic in Georgia is very much one of two parts: the initial response was rapid, effective and valued human life above all else — placing Georgia amongst the top performing countries at preventing the spread of the virus. …Pandemic4 min readPandemic4 min read
Nov 6, 2020Ukraine 2017It was decided that a road-trip should be undertaken; one taking in the lesser-visited places and a few of the obvious ones. …Ukraine4 min readUkraine4 min read
Jun 2, 2020Racism is worse in 2020 and White People need to Finally Act.Now, in 2020 I read comments like “racism isn’t getting worse, it’s getting filmed” and they enrage me because they are patently factually wrong. I was born in London in 1978 and was a teen in the 90s and twentysomething in the 2000’s — in those decades racism was clearly…Racism3 min readRacism3 min read
Jun 11, 2017Lomisoba — Not what it says on the InternetI’d heard mention of this Lomisoba event from a fellow photographer a year ago — he’d not really said much about it except that it was at the top of a mountain and that sheep were sacrificed. So when an anthopologist friend of mine suggested it was important to see…Travel8 min readTravel8 min read
May 4, 2017Solidarity.The times we exist in are interesting and unsettling at the same time, energies constantly shift so that there is no longer a sense of stability as we once knew earlier in our lives. The things we long held to be true are cast in new light and uncertainty becomes…Politics5 min readPolitics5 min read
Jan 16, 2017Welcome to the age of Cognitive Dissonance.The thoughts I write here have little chance of being truly authentic, because such is the flood of content and information that I find myself washed away under there is very little chance of finding the free mindspace to put together a chain of thought that is in some way…Psychology5 min readPsychology5 min read
