"When people talk about the need for Black Excellence I counter with an insistence on Black mediocrity: the right for black people to be as average, flawed, compromised & mistaken as any other group of people. The right, ultimately, to be human." R.I.P. Jason Arday
Dua Lipa unironically has one of the best culture and literature podcasts. She interviews indie writers to heavy-hitters, and more people should know about it
It’s better to lose everything without losing yourself than to win anything by betraying your principles.
What you preserve while striving matters more than what you acquire by giving up your soul.
Solidarity with the hunger strikers.
It is an egregious violation for them to be held on remand - without trial or conviction.
All for protesting against a genocide. Shameful.
🚨 NEW: Zarah Sultana is boycotting the first day of Your Party conference today after some grassroots members were expelled
Spokesperson: “This witch hunt is indefensible. We must build a party that welcomes all socialists. She will not be entering the conference hall today”
I have turned down every interview request from every media outlet, newspaper and tv channel you can think of since Glastonbury but I have become increasingly aware that if I do not add my voice to the mix our story will be told for us, so I reached out to Louis. Episode out now.
one battle after another brilliant performances, banging score, pace riveting… but story v.undercooked, stakes just didn’t match up, you defo ain’t learning nothing about revolutionary movements, also the depiction of black women HORRIBLE , READ https://t.co/nKRkL3SsPO
What’s refreshing about Javier Bardem/Hannah Einbinder’s statements is that they weren’t vague or preemptively defensive, nor did they reduce the genocide to a faceless ‘humanitarian crisis’. They denounced the culprit unequivocally and named what justice demanded: sanctions.
Side eYe OPEN CALL returns! We’re looking for a NEW PLAY by a Somali womxn to develop into our next production with the aim of hitting London stages and a UK tour in 2026. All experience levels and all genres welcome 💜
How many more massacres will it take for Western journalists to grow a spine? To stop parroting Israeli propaganda? To boycott their press conferences? To raise hell in the newsroom? Is this the life you have imagined for yourself, a life of rancid hypocrisy and cowardice? Tfeh