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The story of the Windrush Scandal is often presented in finite terms. A mistake for which successive home secretaries have apologised. A lesson...
Love, in the words of Shakespeare’s Romeo “is too rough, too rude, too boisterous, and it pricks like thorn”. In some cases, it is...
It didn’t take long, did it? Just days after entering the Celebrity Big Brother house, Kate Middleton’s uncle, Gary Goldsmith, has weighed in on...
Superfans haven’t traditionally had the best PR. Between unflattering representations in songs like Eminem’s Millennium superhit, “Stan”...
Chalk it up to my pacifist upbringing or my general disdain for anything remotely resembling patriotism, but I’ve always been vehemently opposed to...
We’ve never been much of a Christmassy household. Excluding my infant years, when I suspect my parents put more effort into tree-decorating and...
This Christmas will be my first without the only grandad I’ve ever known. That’s not exactly novel, I know. Plenty of people have lost...
When you’re a fan of a public figure, it’s hard not to hope that their morals align with yours; that, beyond their output, they will express...
In Britain, there are some beloved figures and traditions that many of us dare not question – even if, quietly, we feel differently. The notion that...
Call it nostalgia, or naivety, but there’s something about the return of Big Brother UK that feels weirdly refreshing. Yes, I did use that word in...
There’s been a lot of talk about fat jokes lately. That good old, low-hanging fruit for lazy comedians and self-described jokesters when...
There is nothing more irritating to some people than a woman who speaks her mind. When it comes to Jada Pinkett Smith – actor, sometimes rocker and...
If you are a black or brown person in this country, being told that living in Britain is a cakewalk, as everyone from the Prime Minister to senior...
Which band or artist would you resurrect from obscurity if you could? It’s a question I feel like I’ve been preoccupied with since my late teens,...
When I moved into my flat and out of my house share last year, I knew it was the street gossip I’d miss the most. I’d lived with my childhood best...