Mar 30, 2018A Sense Of An EndingNB: This will appear in print in CUB Magazine Issue 568, available 9th March 2018. Sadly, my time here is closing fast, and I found myself listening to David Foster Wallace’s commencement speech, This Is Water. (In my opinion, it’s probably the worst thing he came up with, despite it…3 min read3 min read
Mar 30, 2018On The UCU StrikesThis first appeared in CUB Magazine on 17/02/18, and can be found here:http://cubmagazine.co.uk/2018/02/there-is-power-in-a-union-support-the-ucu-strikes/ It’s been coming for some time, but after reading week it will kick in. UCU have voted to go on strike, and many of us will be losing out on valuable lecture time as staff stop teaching…Education7 min readEducation7 min read
Nov 25, 2017Sounds like you hate women but ok — A Short Defence of Rupi KaurNote: This column appeared in print in CUB Magazine, issue 566. If, like me, you’re the bookish type, it’s likely you’ll be getting books for Christmas this year. (For me, that’s my go-to gift from family — either books or a decent whisky, which is why I’ll be wading half-cut…Poetry3 min readPoetry3 min read
Nov 22, 2017Lord Adonis and the Half-Blood Cartel‘A tale told by an idiot; full of sound and fury, signifying nothing’ cries Macbeth in one of his speeches. Many reputable Shakespeare scholars will claim this speech is about life, or mortality, or something equally foolish. He is in fact talking about Andrew Adonis’ hot takes on University education…Education8 min readEducation8 min read
Nov 22, 2017Terrifyingly Divisive Memes for Really Confused Political TeensI was recently asked at work to name all the US states that I could on the map, and, if possible, locate them. I named seven, and got four right geographically. I found myself circling huge areas and writing things like ‘…GUNS?’ and ‘RUST BELT, I THINK’ (Spot the guy…Politics8 min readPolitics8 min read
Nov 22, 2017Why Bojack Horseman Will Save Us AllThere’s a certain kind of conversation you will have in your undergraduate years if you are doing a Humanities degree. You will be at the pub, or at a party, and he (it is nearly always a he) will start to wax lyrical, dropping some half-read, half-arsed quotes from Nietzsche…Television9 min readTelevision9 min read