Author : Ellery James Roberts
Ellery James Roberts was the former lead singer of WU LYF. He now teamed up with Ebony Hoorn to form Lost Under Heaven. After three years spent in Amsterdam, he just returned to Manchester, his hometown, in a post-Brexit context that he explains below.
How does it feel — when you are in your mid-twenties — to experience a context of isolationism choose by people who "prefer to stay home watching daytime TV"? How do you react to hate and "stupidity" after having lived in a European city based on tolerance?
Inequality: redistribution:
pre-distribution. You do not own the virtual you. Privacy is a fundamental element of a free society.
This morning I returned to the city I grew up in, after 3 expansive years spent in the ports of Amsterdam. I had left the perpetual grey of Manchester, England in a spiral of disillusionment, falling ever further into a cycle of angst against the culture of the town and country of my birth. After a few months of wandering, penniless and restless, around the European continent, I ended up in Amsterdam. I was immediately taken by the laissez-faire attitude of "live & let live" that I, as an outsider, projected onto the r...