The last two days I have been disgusted by the bad words on the videos of Alton Sterling being killed by police officers in Baton Rouge. What disgusts me is that I can’t hear the...
Jeffrey Deskovic is a New York State exoneree, who was released in 2006. He has spent the last four years directing a unique foundation to help other wrongfully-convicted prisoners gain release, exoneration, and find their...
In December 2015, a 29-year-old British man of Somalian origin attacked three passengers with a knife at Leytonstone Underground station in east London, severely injuring one of his victims by cutting his throat, as he...
Impressions and reflections on attending part of Adnan Syed’s second Post-Conviction Relief hearing, which took place in Baltimore, Maryland from February 3rd – 9th 2016. Contrasts and parallels with a court appearance of another young...
Following Amanda Knox’s recent acquittal on slander charges brought by 7 Perugia police officers, who she claimed yelled, slapped at and threatened her during interrogations in November 2007 after her house-mate, Meredith Kercher, had been...
We look at the parallels between the Steven Avery and Brendan Dassey cases from Making a Murderer and those of other high-profile defendants such as Adnan Syed, Amanda Knox and the West Memphis Three, and...
You won’t believe it, but somehow our narrator has managed to get through decades of life without ever having watched a single Star Wars movie from beginning to end…. till now. Hear her irreverent observations...
An elderly couple, Allan and Dolores Avery, stoically marching on…….
Did the response to Serial’s first season reinforce the already developing notion that podcasts and podcasting was a “white people” thing? How did this idea get propagated into a social media meme, and what message...
“Sometime in 2015….” “November” has come and gone. So? Where is it??
Are beard-wearers all muscularly-challenged hipsters in gender-identity crisis? Bearded philosopher and writer Dr. Carsten “Baal” Müller, owner of the beard products website Bartkultur, talks about the history of the beard, and its resurgence in popularity in recent...
Pagan…… a word that, for some, sums up negative assumptions about morbid people practising dark and unwholesome rituals. But is this the true nature of Pagan ritual, and the people who practise paganism? What do...
Many who regard Halloween as an unwholesome, even evil festival cite its focus on death. We explore the origins of the relationship between Halloween and death, who has been preoccupied with death through the ages,...
The case of Adnan Syed, the subject of the podcast “Serial”, has been followed and analysed predominantly from the perspective of its possibly being a wrongful conviction. That Adnan was a minor charged as an...
No matter how mainstream having tattoos has become, there still remain some designs that give cause for pause, not just for viewers, but for tattoo artists themselves. We explore the relationship between artist and client,...
A twenty-something Midwestern Millennial living in Washington DC has an unexpected and ambiguous encounter with a strangely-tattooed man, triggering a chain of assumptions, judgments, speculations, behavioural reactions…….. and a numerical conundrum. How would you have...