Callum is a recent graduate of UEA’s Modern and Contemporary Writing MA, and is hoping to revisit some of his half-abandoned creative writing projects in 2021. Passionate about educational equality in particular, he serves on the committee for Norfolk Against Holiday Hunger and helps with English tutoring at a local school.
Articles:
(23.07.21) – Football, English Patriotism, and the Left
Perhaps Marcus Rashford was trying to be too precise. Whilst Frank Lampard, my dad and thousands of others criticised Rashford’s stuttering steps in the build-up to his penalty, he successfully sent Gianluigi Donnarumma the wrong way. Had his effort been just a few inches to the right it would have been hailed as a brilliant penalty. But elite sport is a game of inches.
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(12.06.21) – ‘Norwich Shows Solidarity with Palestine’
Norwich, like many cities and towns across Britain, has seen a number of Palestinian solidarity protests in recent weeks. These protests came in the wake of the latest series of aerial bombardments between Israel and Hamas-controlled Gaza, which resulted in the deaths of 256 Palestinians and 12 Israelis, according to UN figures. The spark for this recent escalation of violence occurred when an Israeli court greenlit eviction proceedings of Palestinian families in the Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood of East Jerusalem, and subsequent peaceful protests were brutally repressed, culminating in attacks by Israeli police on the holy site of Al-Aqsa Mosque during Ramadan, which elicited international condemnation.
