Ciaran Thapar
Freelance Contributor at Freelance
Columnist at British GQ
Director of Comms @YouthEndowFund | Cut Short @VikingBooksUK | All City @SubstackInc | Writing for Social Impact @CityUniLondon | Agent: @mfredturner
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Jan 16, 2025 |
msn.com | Ciaran Thapar
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‘Prison is not a place for rehabilitation’: jailed rapper Marnz Malone on confronting inmate suicide
Jan 16, 2025 |
theguardian.com | Ciaran Thapar
In November 2022, one year into an 11-year prison sentence for firearm charges, Birmingham rapper Marnz Malone was hanging out with his friends during “sosh”, or association time, on his wing. One of them, a boxer, was preaching the benefits of fitness training, explaining how he’d improvised an exercise using some equipment he had. Malone noticed the man living in the cell next to him showing a keen interest and asking questions. At the time, he thought little of it.
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Sep 26, 2024 |
theguardian.com | Ciaran Thapar
This week, possessing, owning, transporting or selling machetes and zombie knives – those longer than eight inches and serrated on one edge – became imprisonable offences. Since 2016, a bizarre loophole in the Offensive Weapons Act has meant that these “statement” weapons could be legally kept and sold if they do not have violent imagery printed on their handles.
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Aug 14, 2024 |
theguardian.com | Ciaran Thapar
There is a widely held sentiment among people of colour who call London our home that travelling beyond its reaches can feel like leaving one country for another, swapping multicultural tolerance for a roll of the dice. But over the past couple of weeks, for the first time in my life, Ihave feared that the city’s bubble might burst. In Hampshire, where my mum and grandparents grew up, a police officer was injured as 200 people surrounded an Aldershot hotel housing asylum seekers on 31 July.
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May 6, 2024 |
theguardian.com | Ciaran Thapar
“It’s your girl, Lady Unchained, and you’re listening to Free Flow – the instrumental show where we play the beat twice so you can get your bars right!”It’s a rainy Thursday afternoon and I’ve just arrived at the secret London location of one of the homes of National Prison Radio (NPR) (the others being inside the walls of nearby HMP Brixton, and inside HMP Styal in Cheshire).
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