Author: Uncharted Thoughts
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I am making a documentary… and it’s actually going well.
Fifteen of my MA course mates are travelling down to London on the 26th of October to document the Tommy Robinson rally that is taking place outside Downing Street. Our aim, is to create a documentary on the about the growing political polarisation in the United Kingdom. Our aim however, is not to push an…
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Slipping back into those old running shoes.
It has been a little over 6 months since I attempted my first ultra marathon, The Green Man, and once again I have found myself signing up to another. My sister, and her fiance are without doubt two of the most capable athletes I have met, they are also some of the most persuasive. So,…
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Is climbing mount Everest goofy.
I’ve mentioned my love for Nepal enough in this blog now for my regular readers to be fed up hearing about it. So, naturally I will continue to do so. However, I think it is time for me to address something that has been playing on my mind for the past couple days. Is it…
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The death of another innocent woman, Violence against women is a concern for all of us.
Trigger warning* topics of sexual harassment, sexual assault, assault and sexual exploitation. No triggering pictures will be included in this blog post. This is a topic we often try to ignore as men, as a nation and as the human race. Be it out of shame guilt or ignorance. Its a topic I hold as…
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My top 5 countries to visit before we return to the universe.
I am 29, and I have visited 30 countries so far and have another 20 to go before successfully achieving a bucket-list goal. In the next three years, I have plans to turn that 30 into a proud 40. However, before exploring more of this beautiful planet we have been graced to perceive, I am…
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Milestone Celebration. 1000 Views.
“The highest reward for a mans toil is not what he can get from it, but what he becomes by it” – John Ruskin It is a day to celebrate, just like yesterday and tomorrow. It is a rarity to see me sit back and smell the roses. I am hard on myself, and often…
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Persecution of Uyghurs in modern day China.
After writing this blog, I doubt I will be able to explore China as a tourist, or as a journalist for that matter. And I can kiss my dream holiday to North Korea goodbye. Who are the Uyghurs? Although estimated to be 12 million strong, the Uyghurs are hard to define. Believed to be the…
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The Canadian Church Burnings… Terrorism against the cloth.
According to online sources, since May 2021, there have been between 33 – 100 attacks on Catholic churches throughout Canada. The majority of these attacks are preformed by arson; fire bombs thrown by extremists in the dead of night that char the interior and cause devastating damage, making some of the historic buildings unusable following…
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Child Beauty Pageants? Let’s talk about that…
“In life’s rich beauty pageant we put children on a stage, said flash your soft white belly child, but just don’t act your age.” – Rodney Crowell Personally, I think beauty pageants are dumb. I mean it’s always nice to appreciate good looking people. I, as a heterosexual male wont complain when I see it…
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One man’s cage, is another’s deliverance. The civil rights movement no one talks about…
On the 20th of November 1969, a group of indigenous peoples, recognised formally as “The Indians of all tribes” took control of the infamous prison island of Alcatraz in the San Francisco Bay area. An occupation that lasted nineteen months and sparked a revolutionary movement of ‘Red Power’ across the United States of America. A…
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