Tag: Beat

Yes, I am writing a lot today. And no I don’t care what anyone thinks or whether some impersonal algorithm penalises me for it. Fuck algorithms and fuck what others think. The customer isn’t always right. I will write as much or as little as I like. I write for myself because I need t...

On my second day walking the coast of Great Britain, I was overwhelmed on trail. I was in terrible weather, wet, hungry, getting cold and didn’t know when I could dry out. I couldn’t comprehend walking in those conditions for a year, especially as the weather would worsen through winter....

We take police on our streets for granted today. But they weren’t always there. At one time, we had watchmen in London rather than police officers. Did you know, the job of keeping order on the streets of London was once the responsibility of parishes? It was a somewhat disorgani...

More and more conversations I have these days go like this. There we are, a group of friends. One says, “Man, times are tough. We’re really struggling these days.” Another one says, “We are too. What should we even do?” And a third one points at me and says, &...