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Hey y’all: listen up to the chartbusting, pop-pickin’, time-addled DJ: “Yes indeed, Band Aid’s Do They Know It’s Christmas is back with a...
So it’s a “no” to reparations, yet again. No to repairing the damage done by the gravest and longest-sustained of human rights abuses, says Keir...
It’s Black History Month, one dedicated to reclaiming narratives. It also happens to be a month before the 140th anniversary of the plotting phase...
When the chips are down, the pen is a little dry or I’ve needed a cheap laugh from an unforgiving audience, over the best part of the past 14 years...
There is a remarkably thin line between novel and novelty. In the past six weeks, Ed Davey, a serial political campaigning rule violator who just...
Dear Mr and & Mrs Loadsadosh, I see you are leaving us. According to the people whose job it is to count our resident millionaires (proper...
The sight of two (or more) people tearing chunks out of each other is one of humanity’s first and most enduring forms of entertainment. The sheer...
Did you hear the news? Rapper J Cole fell out with rapper Kendrick Lemar. Then he apologised. It made headlines all over the world and, for the...
The lady is for turning. And contradicting too. The lady is Kemi Badenoch, the business secretary, minister for women and equalities, and now the...
The scene is May or maybe June 2008, PO (pre-Obama). I was toiling away at my desk while dreaming of escaping my finance job in the City of London to...
Is it wrong to kick a person who’s down and out of luck? What about someone who has needlessly saddled you with a monthly mortgage increase of...
A popular Nigerian adage says “the cow never knows the value of its tail until it is chopped off”. In many tragic ways, this speaks to today’s...
The 140th anniversary of a critical moment in human history will be marked on 15 November 2024. And the odds are that it will conveniently go...
Is a “comedy about slavery” desirable, or even possible? And if not, what about satire: is that an applicable lens through which to consider one...
Respect for your elders is a pillar of Blackness. This means that in most – if not all – African communities, whether continental, in the...