• Thinkpiece — Orchestral Intelligence

    Thinkpiece — Orchestral Intelligence

    I enjoy my writing like I do my food, succulent and dripping with intrigue; a non-perfect experimentation of the chef’s beliefs in what good food should be. Precise, perfect writing bores me, for the most part because it tells me absolutely nothing about the person that wrote it. An inconsistent ordering of words, a slightly…

  • Thinkpiece — My Black Story

    Thinkpiece — My Black Story

    I wouldn’t say that I’ve been a victim of racism—to do so would belittle the true sufferings of the black community—but I have experienced racism of varying degrees on many occasions in my life. I’ve had one unprovoked physical altercation, but in the main the racism I’ve experienced falls into the categories I would describe…

  • THINKPIECE | The World Cup and the English Apathy

    THINKPIECE | The World Cup and the English Apathy

    Time and time again as the World Cup comes around in the UK there is merely a sense of mild anticipation, one that has faded with each International tournament, in line with England’s diminishing performances and seemingly fated inability to win a penalty shootout. Fast forward to 2018 and on the “eve” of England’s World…

  • Thinkpiece: Time speeds up the older you get – here’s proof

    Thinkpiece: Time speeds up the older you get – here’s proof

    Did you know that the older you get time actually moves faster? Don’t worry; I shall (try to) explain all… It’s a theory I’ve mulled over for years; it surfaces every now and then over dinner, after a few drinks or during that coffee catch-up that gets far deeper than you envisaged. But recently the…

  • Thinkpiece : Have we become more Impatient?

    Thinkpiece : Have we become more Impatient?

    Have we lost the art of patience? When Internet speeds were restricted by the limitations of dial-up, the fact that the webpage loaded at all was incredible in itself, but now we get frustrated if we can’t stream flawless video in Ultra HD, or if a heavily image imbued website takes over 0.79 seconds to…

  • Thinkpiece: I forget what’s good

    Thinkpiece: I forget what’s good

    You find something you like, so you screenshot it. Then you forget it, find it amongst your Amazonian screenshot library, so you screenshot the screenshot again to send it back to the top; admit it we’ve all done it. Screenshots have become the modern version of a scrapbook as we try to make sense to…

  • Thinkpiece: The difference between Magazines & Blogs

    Thinkpiece: The difference between Magazines & Blogs

    When we launched the first issue of JOSHUA’s Magazine, I remember the amazement and wonderment that we encountered, people asking “How did you do it?” and I do have to confess in retrospect, I at times wonder myself, with the knowledge gap that I only now realise had existed at the time. But by magazine…