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Oct 29, 2020

If you have an issue with free meals for needy children then you have a problem

During the height of the coronavirus pandemic young Manchester United and England footballer Marcus Rashford used his considerable influence to front a campaign to help provide free school meals for children during the extended break and the summer months that followed. To most, the actions of the 22-year-old were greeted…

Politics

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If you have an issue with free meals for needy children then you have a problem
If you have an issue with free meals for needy children then you have a problem
Politics

6 min read


Mar 16, 2020

A guide to surviving the ‘stay at home’ apocalypse, or ten tips to making the coronavirus outbreak manageable…

What I’m about to tell you won’t immunize you from the virus itself, but could perhaps (I hope), make life during this period just a little more palatable.

Coronaviruses

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A guide to surviving the ‘stay at home’ apocalypse, or ten tips to making the coronavirus outbreak…
A guide to surviving the ‘stay at home’ apocalypse, or ten tips to making the coronavirus outbreak…
Coronaviruses

8 min read


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Storius Magazine

·May 29, 2019

Why Chernobyl Might be the Greatest TV Show Ever Made

The term ‘Nuclear Meltdown’ might be the scariest ever constructed. Sure the words individually ‘Nuclear’ and ‘Meltdown’ are worrying enough on their own. But together. Wow. Let’s just say that on hearing such a term uttered in your presence, in a real-time, very genuine context. Well. You may as well…

Chernobyl

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Why Chernobyl Might be the Greatest TV Show Ever Made
Why Chernobyl Might be the Greatest TV Show Ever Made
Chernobyl

6 min read


Nov 21, 2018

How 24/7 News and the Social Media Age Made Us All Heartless Cynics

The genie is out of the bottle and we can’t force it back in. If you’re honest. The last time you read or heard about the latest mass shooting tragedy, did it even shock you? Did it even register? Or did you consume the bite-sized portions offered to you (number…

Media

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How 24/7 News and the Social Media Age Made Us All Heartless Cynics
How 24/7 News and the Social Media Age Made Us All Heartless Cynics
Media

7 min read


Nov 17, 2018

The Car Crashes

The car crashes. Like he always knew it would. He had no choice. He had to run and he needed a car in order to run. He owed money, far more than he could ever afford to pay back. He was in a cycle and he could not get out. …

Fiction

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The Car Crashes
The Car Crashes
Fiction

2 min read


Nov 14, 2018

The Lost Art Of Giving a Sh*t

What has gone wrong with the world and where did all the douchebags come from? Wait. I’ll hang around for you to ponder this large intangible as I hold myself in ahead of this oncoming rant that’s been building up inside me, from my gut to my brain. Is it…

Politics

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The Lost Art Of Giving a Sh*t
The Lost Art Of Giving a Sh*t
Politics

6 min read


Nov 12, 2018

Hello Old Friend or How I Allowed a Record to Consume Me Whole

“I don’t have to sell my soul, he’s already in me” They say, and by ‘they’ I’m not entirely sure who I mean, that your musical taste is formed at the age of 13 or thereabouts. This musical taste is next to impossible to lose. Either deliberately or otherwise. …

Music

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Hello Old Friend or How I Allowed a Record to Consume Me Whole
Hello Old Friend or How I Allowed a Record to Consume Me Whole
Music

5 min read


Dec 22, 2017

Donald Trump: Why the 45th President of the United States is the most evil man alive today

We didn’t all see it coming. Some of us on Planet Earth assumed the mere presence of ‘The Orange One’ among the assortment of malcontents running for the Republican ticket for the 2016 election was at best, a comedic masterstroke, and at worst, nothing more than confirmation that as a…

Donald Trump

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Donald Trump: Why the 45th President of the United States is the most evil man alive today
Donald Trump: Why the 45th President of the United States is the most evil man alive today
Donald Trump

8 min read


Nov 27, 2016

It’s, not, the end of the world as we know it: How Fear Porn does little to calm troubled waters

It’s, not, the end of the world as we know it: How Fear Porn does little to calm troubled waters 2016 has been a tough year hasn’t it. Influential musicians dropping like flies and arseholes (the correct English spelling) winning elections. This has led to a myriad of columnists waxing…

Politics

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It’s, not, the end of the world as we know it: How Fear Porn does little to calm troubled waters
It’s, not, the end of the world as we know it: How Fear Porn does little to calm troubled waters
Politics

4 min read


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Applaudience

·Nov 18, 2016

Tom Hanks 2020: Yes He Can

Tom Hanks 2020: Yes He Can We live in dark times. Very dark times. The next leader of the free world is this guy

Movies

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Tom Hanks 2020: Yes He Can
Tom Hanks 2020: Yes He Can
Movies

3 min read

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Screenwriter, editor, journalist. I put one word in front of another, for a living.

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