A 46-year-old man was brutally murdered on the 25th of May. His name was George Floyd. A police officer named Derek Chauvin knelt on George’s neck for 8 minutes, George’s crime? They thought he bought something with a fake $20 note. George pleaded for his life but the cops did nothing, they knelt over him…
Tag: News
Netflix Docuseries Pandemic is Alarmingly Fitting Amid Cornavirus Outbreak
The Coronavirus, also known as Covid-19, has dominated news headlines. After emerging in China the virus has spread quicker than anyone could of imagined; at the time of writing the Pathagon has spread to 47 countries and killed 2,814 people. The loss of life is not the only result of Covid-19; there has been widespread…
No Deal Brexit?
Today was a landmark day in British Politics, it’s been said it’s the most important parliamentary vote in a generation. And one, nobody wanted. Nearly 3 years ago, Britain answered one simple question. Remain or leave the European Union, it was a question that had been debated about in workplaces and at dinner parties, a…
A President’s Address
At 9pm ET President Trump made his first public address from the Oval Office, focusing on the border wall, and the security of the US–Mexico border. Trump is so focused on scoring political points, that he is washing over a legitimate problem by not giving up on a wall that no one wants. Entire families…
A Government in Shutdown and a President at Fault
America has been in the midst of yet another government shutdown under Tumps reign and it is quickly becoming one of the longest shutdowns in U.S. history. The government went into shutdown affecting some 800,000 federal workers after Congress refused to pass a bill, giving billions to fund Trump’s famous wall. This, of course, was…
The Clinton Affair
A new six-part documentary recently hit our small screens. Since it has been 20 years since the world couldn’t stop talking about “that dress”, Blair Foster decided to direct a documentary focusing on the events leading up to the impeachment of Bill Clinton in 1999. So, of course, its focus was on the affair between…
Are you the Rarest Personality Type in the World?
Have you ever heard of Katherine Cook Briggs, or the Myers-Briggs personality types? If you haven’t, you may not know about the sixteen different personality types. These sixteen types are based off a theory by Carl Jung, this theory said that people experience the world using four psychological functions; sensation, intuition, feeling and thinking. Katherine…
Windrush Scandal
Picture sourced from Google In 1948 the MV Empire Windrush docked in Tillbury, it’s after the second World War and the British Government invited people from Caribbean countries to take refuge. They would become the Windrush generation. Now, the government who took them in and gave them a place to call home, have said they…
A Day Out In Greenwich
Wednesday is my favourite day, it’s the day me and my flatmate go into central London and wind down from the week we have survived. This Wednesday has been my favourite so far, after the terrible few weeks I have had I thought it time to enjoy a day out in the sun. As I…
Cambridge Analytica; Do We Really Care About Our Online Privacy?
JK Rowling called it the “story of the year, if not the decade”! It was a story I briefly read about but batted away as I quickly got distracted by yet more Trump news. I couldn’t get away from it for long however, at 3am one morning I was scrolling through The Guardians top stories…
The Journo Type 