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Welcome to a selection of my writing! Links to every single piece I've written are on LinkedIn.
Originally from Rome, I've lived in Dubai and London; I'm a third year English student at KCL.
I've written opinion & news for online youth magazines, I'm editor-in-chief at YouthPolitics UK and run my personal blog of rambles and book reviews.
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The Special Counsel Investigation, also known as the Mueller investigation, has been ongoing in the past year and a half, and chances are everyone has heard something about it. As it deals with both U.S. affairs and international law, articles are constantly feeding people different, often complicated viewpoints.
If there's one thing the coronavirus pandemic has shown, it's how double standards of race and class divide the world. The privileged-white-part of the population is protesting to get haircuts , and the other side is demanding that no more innocent black people are killed.
Since starting the Fridays for Future initiatives of school strikes which quickly spread on a worldwide scale, young climate activist Greta Thunberg has received criticisms for pretty much everything that could come to mind: her age, her political inclinations, her methods of protest, her approach to school and even her health condition and appearance.
There's nothing I love more than a good - and softly, aesthetically, realistically plot-less - book. "Plotless" is always a good term - at least for my mind, sometimes struggling to grasp around complicated concepts or actions and often finding itself stuck in wanting deeper meaning.
This is the first sentence uttered by Eddy, 17, in a brief video recorded by the Guardian . The video documents the experiences of him and his younger sister, Lilian, when they were held in child detention centres. Eddy describes the quenching thirst, the feeling of dehumanisation, the verbal abuse and physical exhaustion that the two underwent earlier this year.
When Trump signed the controversial SESTA-FOSTA legislation in April 2018, sex workers and legal experts quickly began protesting; characterized by its vague focus and phrasing, after all, SESTA-FOSTA represents a step backwards for liberating sex trafficking victims and for the emancipation of consensual sex work.
March 2018 recorded the lowest number of refugees reaching the Italian coasts after crossing the Mediterranean Sea, due to accords which the nation initiated with Libya last year. And, while Italy takes a weight off its shoulders, an even heavier burden is put on the refugees, which are left in atrocious conditions and can see European solidarity [...]
On April 24, Reporters Without Borders published the 2018 World Press Freedom Index, an annual ranking that the NGO releases of different country's relationships with media outlets. While this index is incredibly interesting, reading through it gets more and more sour as the years pass due to the amount of countries that fall under harsh censorship and [...]
Grayson Perry: Super Rich Interior Decoration25 September - 20 December 2019Entrance: FreeView HereShopping for Meaning (detail), 2019, glazed ceramic,&nb
When I first started this blog a few years ago, I wrote a bunch of posts about metaphors, their significance both in writing and, more interestingly, in life. They have been dusting, saved at the very back of the queue and never published for no particular reason, and reading back onto them I decided to...