Trooping the Colour
If you’re not British, Trooping the Colour is often understood simply as a ceremonial military parade, a moment where the royal family gathers, appears, and performs a kind of national…
March 2026
Queer Continuity Through Poetry: How Form Sustains AIDS Stories and Culture
Through poetry, queer voices like Danez Smith and Mark Doty transformed form into a tool of survival, celebrating life and maintaining generational continuity.
Pass It On: Football Across Generations
As the cold crept in, I realised that football is about far more than the movement of a ball across a pitch. It lives in the stands, in the chants…
Behind The Screen
“They’ve been with us through thin and thin” – Mark Robins (Stoke City Manager) I was lucky enough to step behind the stands, all the way into the press box…
Review of Matterhorn
Being human was all he could manage. Without people, there would be no evil, but also no good or morals. Humanity holds all the responsibility. This review explores this idea.
Review of Beloved
“Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.”
Learning Football from the Stands
For most of my life, football was something I never quite understood. It was always there in the background, though. My grandfather loved it, and my great-grandparents did too. At…
The 1992 film The Living End and its lasting relevance
I’ll be the first to say that I don’t enjoy ‘pretentious’ films. I fall for all the traps, when music swells, I cry, when dance starts, I laugh, and I…