My Indonesian student wrote and gave it as a gift for me — Unexpected gifts are the best. It was the end of the academic year and I was shyly handed a box by the one Indonesian student in my English class. …

Neurosurgeons are offering operations to implant these expressions in People of Colour who want to get ahead of the pack — The Harley Street surgeon’s advert was astonishly upfront: ‘Tokens, otherwise known as Coconuts, Coons, Uncle Toms etc etc have become highly desirable accessories to the powerful elites who rule from behind the scenes’. I turned over the leaflet slightly in shock and read: Token Black/Brown/People of Colour are urgently wanted…

Cannibal Capitalism Has Screwed the World — When I was a kid, it seemed an obvious truth The English were the glorious, victorious I sat through my history lessons Believing the Ancient Greeks were English Music class brought us, the great Bach and Beethoven (Because they were great, they couldn’t possibly be German!) Our sports teacher loved…

Can you? کیا آپ — Can you be brave and bold And with your deeds unfold Your wings to protect, even one of The hungry, the homeless, even include All that flies, swims, creeps and crawls, Upon which your food depends? For it’s not in the words you mutter, With your Hail Marys Or your wailing at the Wall Nor the motions…