It is a regular, boring and average night at my house, and I am in bed, doomscrolling as always on my phone on Instagram. My eyes are heavy, and my thumb is on autopilot as the lingering thought in the back of my mind says to me, “I should really be going to sleep right… Continue reading All roads lead to Rome — the White Rabbit meme and Gen Z’s ironic search for meaning and completion
“A woman should learn in quietness and full submission. I do not permit a woman to teach or to assume authority over a man; she must be quiet.” — 1 Timothy 2:11–12 There is something almost admirable in the efficiency with which religion has managed, across time and geography, to persuade women to defend systems… Continue reading Blessed are the obedient — women, worship and the architecture of conformity
US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) remains one of the most debated and scrutinised federal agencies in the US. Established in 2003 under the Homeland Security Act of 2002 following the 11 September attacks, ICE consolidated immigration enforcement and customs investigative functions previously housed in the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) and the US Customs… Continue reading The current state of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement — ICE
The conflict between Venezuela and the United States is not a conventional war, but rather a prolonged political, economic and diplomatic standoff rooted in ideological differences, contested elections, sanctions policy, energy geopolitics and regional security concerns. Over the past decade, tensions have intensified, eased at moments and then resurfaced—particularly around Venezuela’s electoral legitimacy, US sanctions,… Continue reading Oil, sanctions and sovereignty — the ongoing conflict between Venezuela and the United States
An email from the Gita Bhavan Hindu Temple brings far-right Hindutva organising in the UK into question On the 10th of May 2026, a prominent Manchester mandir sent an email to its mailing list advertising an event that took place twenty days later, on the 30th of May. Alarmingly, it said the event was being… Continue reading VHP-linked Hindu temple in Manchester lists event “Sponsored by Bajrangdal”
Nausea was spilling like soup in my eyes around 1 am, as I turned in bed. It was the Monday night I had just finished marking 2100 MCQs and 42 mini essays. Meanwhile, I got an urgent email from two of my students, saying they had 24 hours to apply for a Rohingya student scholarship… Continue reading The Rohingya Crisis From My Bedroom
It’s been a long, long war. Like the majority of my generation, my memories of peacetime are sparse and foggy. I remember the day I made my Instagram account, in the afterglow of the summer of 2012. The skeuomorphic icon of the colourful camera, the grainy photos of my guinea pigs uploaded for my zero… Continue reading Social justice culture and the New Left — how pragmatism beats idealism
We live in the age of performative inclusion and the political destruction of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI). Newsrooms, late-night shows and political figures discuss the impact and relevance of diversity, equity and disability rights as casually as a morning routine. And yet some of the most ordinary forms of difference — speech patterns —… Continue reading Who gets laughed at — speech, power and the limits of “inclusion”
In the way it is being played in England and across the UK, contemporary politics has almost become something unreal to many people. The complaint of the sceptics and the wide disillusionment about the current premiership of Keir Starmer is that politics, politicians and promises mean nothing to many. For some, it is a game… Continue reading Farage’s warnings and Starmer’s fears — Britain waits for vindication
As we reflect on the past year and attempt to digest its wildest moments, it feels fitting to coin these past 12 months as “the year of the billionaire”. Some of 2025’s biggest moments were headed by business moguls, most notably Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk; whether they were launching rockets into space or making… Continue reading Are billionaires trendy now?
