The murder of Stephen Lawrence 33 years on
Lest we forget… It’s Steven Lawrence Day in the ‘United‘ Kingdom. Which, in 2026, means that 33 years ago in its capital city an innocent young boy was savagely slain in a callous racially…
May The Fourth Be With You: How Margaret Thatcher launched the Star Wars ‘holiday’
Who would have thought the election of Margaret Thatcher as Prime Minister in 1979 would be the genesis of a worldwide, annual celebration of all things Star Wars? Yet that’s exactly how May…
Formidable femmes: The 115 women who changed the world
It’s been a wee while since we marked International Women’s Daywith a new feature. As it’s the 115th anniversary of the earliest iteration of IWD—a sui generisFebruary 1909 event organised by…
