Spoilers ahead, though the show finished more than a decade ago, so I feel no guilt about it.

Everyone has a favourite in Breaking Bad, and most people pick wrong. They pick Walt, because the writing is good enough to make you mistake a small man’s ego for greatness. Or they pick Jesse, …

I do not follow many people on the internet. The feed mostly just makes me tired. But there is one man I have watched for a while now, from here in Spain, with something close to quiet pride, and his name is Azad Chaiwala.

If you do not know him, the short version is this: a Pakistani who has spent …

In the city where I live now, people do not like pigeons. They call them rats with wings. There are little metal spikes on the window ledges to keep them off, and a particular flick of the hand that people use to send them scattering off a café table. I understand it, I suppose. There are a great …