Over the last few years, I have become involved in the local Baptist church in bath, it has become like a home for me as I’m normally there a few hours a week helping out with the office doing my own projects and general admin. From the start, I have welcomed with open arms something which I needed I had […]
We all have various identity’s, ones we can and can’t control these identities are shaped throughout our life, they evolve and change by what we do and who we are friends with. The first identity we are assigned is male or female, I don’t want to get into gender identity as I believe its not my area of expertise. But […]
Last year, I wrote a piece about my icons and every June is the LGBTQ+ month so I thought I would write a version looking at some of my queer icons. These people may or may not be LGBTQ+, but seem to be very in touch with the issues. I know there aren’t many women of this list, maybe because […]
This month is global pride month, so I wanted to explore the history of pride and as a gay man who has never been to pride what it means to me. Unfortunately, this year due to coronavirus and social distancing means that many of these events will be cancelled due to coronavirus. The story of pride goes back to 1969, […]
On the 27 January 1945, the Red Army liberated Auschwitz the biggest mass murder site in the history of the world. Seventy-five years on, and amongst the ever-growing division of Europe and the world, the warning from the Holocaust and all the genocides since is of where the division can lead. With Brexit just days away, we cannot allow the […]
We all have different role models, or people we look up to these can be both good (mostly) and bad. Mostly we describe role models as ‘A person who serves as an example of the values, attitudes, and behaviours associated with a role.’ Normally we think of role models as people like Nelson Mandela, Ayrton Senna, or big global stars. […]
In 2019, we under the law here in the UK and Europe we are all protected from discrimination. The Equality Act, which protects women, men, age, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, called protected characteristics should give us all the same rights. Although there are some exceptions like religious reasons or Employment where there are cultural sensitivities and Political parties who […]
I have been an ambassador for the Holocaust Educational Trust since I visited the Auschwitz in March 2012. Events of the 1930’s and 40’s I believe are more important now than ever, in an age of nationalism, it’s hard to remember the advents of the period. The Holocaust shows the horrors of man to man, we create divides out of […]