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Jonathan Keir
Harker Starmer
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Not having enough questions about
their good friend, the Prince of Darkness

Stonehenge, carnival, folk and fascists: how Zakia Sewell (pictured in front of cherry blossoms) went in pursuit of the real story of Britain

The 6 Music DJ and writer Zakia Sewell, whose new book explores her mixed-race heritage and the ancient myth of ‘Albion’, tells @michaelamakusha.bsky.social everyone has a stake in a complex, nuanced country

www.thenerve.news/p/zakia-sewe...

Stonehenge, carnival, folk and fascists: how Zakia Sewell went in pursuit of the real story of Britain The 6 Music DJ and writer, whose new book explores her mixed-race heritage and the ancient myth of ‘Albion’, tells Michaela Makusha everyone has a stake in a complex, nuanced country

Spoke with the amazing Zakia Sewell @zakiasewell.bsky.social about her brilliant book Finding Albion, folk culture, festivals and more for The Nerve @thenerve.news

www.thenerve.news/p/zakia-sewe...

obligatory freelance journalists post in that my email is michaelamakusha@gmail.com and you can commission me of opinion pieces, features and profiles.

thoughts on famesick, lena dunham and why I couldn't be famous right now from a gen z girlie 💓 have a read
open.substack.com/pub/michaela...

The Music is Black: A British Story @ V&A East. Four stars. Image of exhibit with orange walls and photographs on display

The Music is Black: A British Story @ V&A East
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An ambitious exhibition launching the V&A’s new outpost shies away from the hardest parts of the social history behind the tunes, but tells its story with verve, writes music critic @damienmorris.bsky.social

www.thenerve.news/p/review-the...

Stonehenge, carnival, folk and fascists: how Zakia Sewell went in pursuit of the real story of Britain The 6 Music DJ and writer, whose new book explores her mixed-race heritage and the ancient myth of ‘Albion’, tells Michaela Makusha everyone has a stake in a complex, nuanced country

Spoke with the amazing Zakia Sewell @zakiasewell.bsky.social about her brilliant book Finding Albion, folk culture, festivals and more for The Nerve @thenerve.news

www.thenerve.news/p/zakia-sewe...

okay but as a freelancer, I was paid the same day and I was shocked. the editor can ask me to do anything at two o'clock in the morning.

Michaela Makusha

It's my birthday month and I'm panicking about it. So commission me, take me on for freelance shifts as a writer or an editorial assistant. I also do research assistance work. Make sure I am working on my birthday.

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also in my piece about the Hungarian election! this extremely "welcome to Budapest" vignette: www.thenewworld.co.uk/marie-le-con...

With Orbán gone, has the British far right lost its magic money tree? Hungary’s new PM has described his predecessor’s funding of propaganda bodies as criminal and vowed to investigate. This could be bad news for ultraconservatives in the UK – and around the rest of the...

NEW Hungary’s new PM has described Viktor Orbán’s funding of propaganda bodies as criminal and vowed to investigate.

Bad news for ultraconservatives in the UK!

Alice McCool's deep dive into Orban, his propaganda college MCC – and its links to the British right ⏬

www.thenerve.news/p/viktor-orb...

It's my birthday month and I'm panicking about it as on the 29th, I shall be a year older.

With that in mind, commission me, take me on for freelance shifts as a writer or an editorial assistant. I also do research assistance work. Make sure I am working on my birthday.

michaelamakusha.co.uk

sick of these catholic converts showing up and saying "well I have a different interpretation of the scripture" no you don't. that's protestantism and a heresy. don't like it there's the (incredibly beautiful and heavily ornamented with precious metals) door

Quick morning shout out to all the other freelancers who didn't even know it was the bank holiday, the whole concept having become utterly irrelevant to their lived experience.

No, Millennial Feminism Did Not Trick You on sexual politics, Tumblr feminism and the generational divide

wrote about the beef between Gen Z feminists, Millennial feminists and sex politics on the substack that I sometimes remember that I have

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No, Millennial Feminism Did Not Trick You on sexual politics, Tumblr feminism and the generational divide

wrote about the beef between Gen Z feminists, Millennial feminists and sex politics on the substack that I sometimes remember that I have

open.substack.com/pub/michaela...

Wuthering Heights, Withering Lows Emerald Fennell’s ‘Wuthering Heights’ adaptation strips the novel of its racial, regional, and class dynamics, producing an empty spectacle emblematic of the erasure of working-class voices from the a...

my amazing friend katie tobin has written this excellent analysis of wuthering heights for @tribunemagazine.bsky.social

tribunemag.co.uk/2026/02/wuth...

do you know what would help!!!!!!!! living in a society that lets people experiment with their gender without treating it like the most important thing in the world!!!!!!! letting people get it right or wrong without politicising their decisions!!!!!!! just being chilled about gender!!!!!! aaahhhhhh

TEXT: We've found our dog but lost our privacy... how Ring's Super Bowl ad went viral for all the wrong reasons

"It is of course dystopian and creepy..."

The smart doorbell company Ring’s new tech – displayed in a heartwarming family tale of finding a lost pet – was swiftly called out as a chilling demonstration of digital surveillance, writes @michaelamakusha.bsky.social

www.thenerve.news/p/superbowl-...

What do we want from Black women on screen? From Teyana Taylor’s Oscar-nominated turn in One Battle After Another to Industry’s ruthless Harper Stern, Black women are taking on some of the most morally complex roles on screen. But what does “go...

For EE72, I wrote about representation of black women on screen, even when it's messy as hell and why mess is culturally necessary:

ee72.com/what-do-we-w...

South Asian women are underrepresented in British sport. Meet the women pushing for change These women are pushing boundaries in sport.

An exciting feature today from me in British Glamour - celebrating BrownGirlSport and their fantastic ambassadorship to encourage more South Asian women in sport in the UK.

Have a read about these amazing women and the great work Brown Girl Sport does!

www.glamourmagazine.co.uk/article/sout...

they're executing moms and nurses in the street. they're using preschoolers as bait. they're stealing people's dads and grandmas and children. they're tear gassing babies. they're staking out schools. there is no remedy but abolition. any proposal that doesn't start there is an act of violence.

It also feels like some are more shocked at 'good' middle class people being killed than they were at black and brown people who may not have been saints killed by law enforcement. As though now the U.S is acting immorally as opposed to the last 250 years that have led to this point.

but doing this so brazenly and there being little consequence from the government is what people were protesting against. By arguing against that, you legitimise a system that can execute members of the public from all walks of life. That is why solidarity has always mattered.

With the tragic shootings in Minnesota, I can't help but think that people really missed the point of defunding the police and the BLM protests in 2020 and before that. Because law enforcement killing people is not new.

Fascinated to know where the ‘no it’s not Fascism’ crowd stand after the last two weeks, with the kidnap of Liam Ramos, the murder of Renee Good and now Alex Pretti, a 37 yr old ICU nurse who worked with veterans.

He was shot nine times while helping a woman who had been pepper sprayed.

Nine.