Category: life etc.
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JOURNALISM MATTERS
The other day, I was just about to turn off the news. Stop. Go cold Turkey and not bother with any more news but the parliamentary committee had other plans and they were going to pull me back in.Do you ever get the feeling that it’s all a bit too much news? This is the…
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SUMMER- WILD & OUTSIDE
One evening in Paris, after watching one of my best mates complete a gruelling London-Paris ride, we stopped by the Eiffel Tower just in time for us to catch her late-night light show as couples danced with each other because a band had set up on the steps opposite. It was the most charming sight…
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MIGRANTS & MILLIONAIRES
As I type this, there is a huge rescue effort ongoing in a race to find the submersible carrying five explorers who are on an expedition to view a vessel that has been sunk to the bottom of the oceon for over one hundred years, yep you guess it; The Titanic. What is essentially a…
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ON WRITING & THE WRITER’S STRIKE
I am a writer, but I do not make money from it, I don’t know that I ever will, I would like to, love to actually, someday… Pisces and their pipe dreams eh! But the money is not the reason I write, I write simply because I love it and I am meant to be…
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STRANGERS IN PARIS
Paris is often touted as the city for lovers, but it is much more than that, it is a city that invites a singleness and lonesomeness that does not stigmatise. It is a place where you can, on having lunch by yourself, make friends with the person sat next to you, and swap stories that…
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WHEN WOMEN QUIT
I think we can all agree that politics is a bit shit right now, a lot shit actually. The world is in flames and it is no surprise that some people want no parts in it, no parts in fixing a system fundamentally and continually broken mostly by men in power- let’s be frank. However,…
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REMEMBER MAHSA ZHINA AMINI
A young woman was killed. Her name is Mahsa Zhina Amini. Her crime? Not covering her head fully with her hijab in Tehran. Not her whole head, but part of her head; just to reiterate, she had on a hijab but it simply covered part of her head. That was her crime and for that…
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THE PALACE OF WESTMINSTER- A HOUSE OF CARDS.
So, what do you get when you have an agreement by handshake almost, that relies on honour and good manners? Chaos, scandals, lies, deceit… that’s what. A string of scandals that has meant the big dawg’s behind was left unclean because let’s face it, there is only so much covering of arses that can be…
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ROE V WADE- RAGE.
I was not going to write anything about this. I was simply going to rage and keep raging on my various timelines on social media. After all, I am not American nor do I live in America, nor do I have any plans of visiting America any time soon, or at this stage, ever, but…