St Lazarus Church on Ascension Day, (25 May 17), Larnaca, Cyprus. 1 – Man on phone getting his picture taken by me using my phone. 2 – Man on phone getting his picture taken by me using my phone, whilst woman takes picture on her phone. All the whilst maybe he was on his phone…
Heartbroken at what has happened in Manchester. My humble thoughts and prayers for those affected, though I know that is not enough and will mend nothing. Just a gesture but I feel helpless and hopeless not knowing what else I can do or solidarity to share, especially on a virtual social platform made up of…
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Robert Pirsig wrote Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, one of my favourite fiction books. I read it when I was a teenager and it exercised my mind and the way I saw things, and inspired me in more ways than I can articulate. It was the book that made me want to be…
For the record, I did my MA at SOAS 17 years ago, and in one of the essays I wrote there talked about Kant’s racism, Marx’s dismissive blind spot to race, and today I continue to talk about Franz Fanon and Paulo Freire (who was directly inspired by Fanon) in most lectures I give about…
My memories of Shaun from Culverhay school are all about Physics. Me, Sean Morrison, Shaun Collins and Alex Escott sat on the back row, admittedly messing about and having a good laugh, Physics was my favourite class, after Art. Shaun was an incredibly funny person, the four of us would often be in tears of laughter at the back,…
Today is Christmas… Ethiopia, the only country in Africa never to be colonised by a European country, still follows the ancient Julian calendar. The country is known to have the oldest established Christian church on earth, established in Biblical times, (not through slavery or colonisation), and still celebrates Christmas on the original date that it…
