Slavery was one of world’s biggest shames. Something that is rarely discussed anymore because we hold it as a thing of the past; but is it really a thing of the past? How free are we actually today? Who can honestly say “I am a free man” without stopping for […]

Based on the true story and book of the same name, 12 Years a Slave follows Solomon Northup, a free man from New York who is kidnapped and sold into slavery. What follows is twelve hellish years where Solomon experiences violence on an unthinkable scale, when all he wants is […]

I recently wrote a blog on my website about the fact that so many actors, at various stages of their career, have to work for free. Since the courts decided that the Government’s Workfare programme was, to all extents and purposes, illegal, as there are more than a few slavery […]