I aspire to put digital pen to digital paper and for people to actually want to read it.
It’s two o’clock in the morning, I am alone. I’m in the front room of the ninth floor flat I moved into last month, sat on the floor tucked away in a little nook beside the sofa next to a window. If anybody walked in they would just see some slightly lanky legs sticking out […]
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For centuries scholars and science-fiction fans have wondered whether time travel could be possible. Is it? Almost certainly not, obviously. But I can sort of pretend if I let my eyes blur and my mind wander. From the outside looking in it might seem a little weird, a little pointless, a little like a waste […]
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Darkness creeps around me, I’m sat up in bed, the room around me is shrouded in darkness and the only source of light is emanating from my laptop, the only noise the taps of a keyboard. I’m one of those people who likes to leave their blinds shut, I only use my bedroom to sleep […]
Read more "Women are from Venus and men are complicit in normalising sexual assault"
When is a cage a prison, and when is it a chance for a fresh start? Morning, it’s April, it’s 9:47am, I just woke up and all I can hear is noise, a wall of noise on what was supposed to be my day off. I’m lying in bed, the blinds drawn shut with just […]
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Nobody ever teaches you how to grow up. There’s no formula for it, there’s not a definitive moment you know, you don’t wake up one day and go ‘Oh, I did that growing up thing and I smashed it you know’.
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Every day was the same, the boy, trudging along, one step in front of another, wide eyed wonder long gone, replaced by weariness, unbecoming of somebody so young. This was his life and he had become accustomed to it. The boy didn’t often mind much, you should try not to feel for him, this is […]
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I often find myself awake, day and night it’s a familiar state to find myself in. I’m used to lying in bed in the early hours of the morning, looking up at the artex ceiling of my childhood bedroom. I’ve lived in this house all my life, long gone are are the stuffed toys, the […]
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This series of features aims to explore the “beautiful game” of football and discuss the aspects you perhaps don’t hear about too often. The underbelly of the world’s game, the things that need addressing for it to truly deserve its beautiful nickname in three parts. This edition of The “Beautiful” Game will highlight the struggles […]
Read more "The “Beautiful” game: Homosexuality, the football taboo to end all football taboo’s?"
This series of features aims to explore the “beautiful game” of football and discuss the aspects you perhaps don’t hear about too often. The underbelly of the world’s game, the things that need addressing for it to truly deserve its beautiful nickname, in three parts. The following will be aimed at likely the most well […]
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This series of features aims to explore the “beautiful game” of football and discuss the aspects you perhaps don’t hear about too often. The underbelly of the world’s game, the things that need addressing for it to truly deserve its beautiful nickname in three parts. The following words will discuss one of football’s bigger taboo […]
Read more "The “Beautiful” game: Mental Health, the dark future of football?"