If an adult walked up to their white, middle class neighbours and asked them, “Have you just not met any or very many black people before or are you just living in a different universe?” they would be met with a certain level of anger. However, Brooke Bayoude in Ali Smith’s There but for the…
Studying, stockpiling and social distancing
Whenever people ask me how my experience of supermarket work during a pandemic has been, my standard answer is ‘interesting’, simply because I do not think I would have time to explain it fully. One minute, I am being applauded and told how brave I am for being a ‘key worker’, the next I am…
Election Special: what the Norwich South candidates are saying
Brexit Party: Alexander Gilchrist “I’m in it to win it here” “More proportional representation is required” To Alexander Gilchrist, “what the Brexit Party stands for is democracy and rights.” He says it embodies a range of “various different political spectrums,” referencing his own experiences of being “on marches at Burston with Jeremy Corbyn” as an…
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