Before I start, let me ask you a question. Markus “Notch” Persson, George Lucas, and the Wright brothers. What do these people all have in common? “Three Dreams That Revolutionised Their Respective Industries”. The first dream is the oldest of the three: The Wright Flyer. In 1903, two brothers started working on what seemed like…
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The purchase On April 25th Twitter’s board of directors unanimously accepted a $44 billion offer from Elon Musk to buy the social media giant. This follows Musk being critical of the running of the platform, over the past few years. An example of this is his opposition to the banning of Donald Trump after the…
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Imagine this, It was a long and hard weekend and it was more work than relaxation. Eventually you head on back into school to tell your “friends” about your weekend. But for some reason, they don’t care. You may be wondering “why do they seem tired of me” “why is no one talking to me…
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Storytelling The journalist and writer George Monbiot has pointed out that political failure is at heart a failure of imagination, and to trigger imagination we need narrative. Broad political movements all have their own narrative. Those narratives have a villain or villains who is the cause of the bad and disorder in the world and…
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A review of the 2016 short, fan-made film “Severus Snape and the Marauders” and why I believe this thrilling masterpiece is better than the original Harry Potter films.
How bad is climate change? One of the most frequently asked questions… Pretty bad if you ask me. I am going to start by explaining what climate change is. Climate change is often confused with global warming, so I would like to explain the difference. Climate change refers to long-term shifts in temperatures and weather…
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Stark Warnings Last August the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change published the first study of its sixth assessment report, which found that it is only possible to avoid warming of 1.5 °C or 2 °C if massive and immediate cuts in greenhouse gas emissions are made. The Secretary-General of the UN, António Guterres, called the…
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I recently spoke to John Hogan, a lecturer and researcher of International relations at VU Amsterdam. I wanted to talk to him to get an expert’s perspective on the situation in Ukraine, but we also spoke about areas he specialises even more in like African politics and international security. You can watch the video here:…
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The Russian Empire In 1904, Czar Nicholas II of Russia led his country into war with Japan after a failed diplomatic attempt to expand Russian influence in Manchuria and Korea. A year later, the Russian Empire suffered a humiliating defeat to the hands of the Japanese Empire. The loss of life without victory and the…
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Writing stories can be incredibly hard, especially when you don’t know where to start. Through tips and tricks gathered from people expert in the matter, here’s a few tips on how you can write the sensational story you have always wanted to write.
