And so day 2 began in the same manner day 1 finished: fatigued excitement. Though my first night in the Middle East was uneventful, I found it difficult compartmentalizing the thought that I was sleeping on some of the most contested soil on the planet. …

The Israel Diaries Day 1 It is difficult to mask my repulsion for android phones as I hammer out this blog post on a Samsung. The lack of space between text symbols means that unedited sentences read something like this: curr3ntly.at luton airp0rt and. Q.u.eue fo4 security. Is longer thn…

Authenticity is a word that gets bandied around a lot these days. Travel agents make the perennial promise to provide customers with an ‘authentic experience’ while travel writers describe how they found the ‘real [insert country]’ or the ‘true side of [insert well-known country]’. Its meaning is, of course, entirely…

ScHoolboy Q, CrasH Talk The quality of tea is determined less by the leaf than by its assemblage. The bag should always go in first and boiled water (approx 85°C) will follow; under no circumstances should any bovine lactate make initial contact with the vessel — that is the water’s…

“What made war inevitable was the growth of Athenian power and the fear which this caused in Sparta.” — Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War. Nearly 2,400 years on, Thucydides’s ruminations on the Peloponnesian War, an ancient Greek War fought between Athens and Sparta, continue to occupy the pent house…

Never are discussions so hotly debated as on a Whatsapp group. Today the dispute centred on England cricketer Ben Stokes, who was on trial for affray charges. Outside a Bristol nightclub, Stokes had been caught on CCTV punching and kicking two men who, according to the cricketer, had been mocking…

Somewhere in between scrambling to placate my editor with ideas for the upcoming edition and checking my finances to ensure that I could afford lunch this week, I stumbled onto an old email. The email was from notifications@slc.co.uk, requesting me to update my employment details immediately. I resented the Orwellian…

Written for and first published in KCW Today on 15th March 2018. Investor confidence in Tesla remains strong, but the clock is ticking for the EV company to start delivering During a raucous fourth day at the Republican National Convention in 2016, PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel decried that US innovation…

As you scroll down your Facebook newsfeed each day, what do you see? Perhaps a relative posting a three-minute video of a dog chasing its own tail; someone from your old school sharing distressingly alt-right statuses, or maybe just some neek that has nothing better to do on his weekend…