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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2 weeks ago |
huckmag.com | Ciaran Thapar
This Spring marks 20 years since the release of Bullet Boy, Saul Dibb’s film about a young man called Ricky (played by Ashley Walters) who tries to resist being dragged into a cycle of gun violence after returning home from prison. It explores Ricky’s personal battles, but also his influence over an impressionable younger brother, Curtis, and the painful disappointment of his mother, Beverley, who tries to hold her family together.
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3 weeks ago |
the-fence.com | Ciaran Thapar
A dispatch from one of the most singular club nights in Britain, right next to Heathrow Airport. For the last three years, the revival of a very British musical subculture has been gaining momentum among the suburbs around Heathrow Airport. On a Friday evening once a month, a cohort of skanking revellers gather at a clubhouse sandwiched between two parks beside the trickling waters of Yeading Brook in Hayes, and listen and move to the layered sounds of dub reggae. ‘Come.
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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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