Hamish Alexander
Recovering journalist. Visual storyteller. Digital nomad. Natural history + current events. Raconteur. Cultural anthropology.
I hope that somewhere in here I will talk about a creator who will intrigue + inspire you.
Twitter: @HamishAlexande6
The Dead Drop
She had that unsettling feeling the moment the snow lifted and she could see the cabin through the midwinter trees, somber and oddly still in the gloom. There was no sign of life inside, not even the telltale smoke from the chimney, just the eerie quiet of the white, snowbound forest all around. She paused, and that moment of dread rippled over her once again, that moment she hoped would never come but, deep down, knew it would.
Hamish AlexanderPublished a day ago in Criminal
Sports and Politics Walk The Line
Football’s greatest legends: Diego Maradona, Lionel Messi, Neymar and now Kylian Mbappé, choosing a worthy candidate for the title ‘Greatest Player in the History of the Game’ is both spectator sport and blood sport, and changes with the times.
Hamish AlexanderPublished 3 days ago in Cleats
If It Ain’t Broke, Don’t Fix It
Are you an NBA or Major League Baseball fan? Not many sports fans in North America follow the machinations of the European soccer leagues — “football” to those in the UK — but citing the NBA or MLB seems the most effective way to tell sports fans here about a crazy new proposal called “the Super League” that has the potential to upend everything footie fans have grown to like and love about Premier League soccer in the UK — and La Liga, the Bundesliga, Serie A and Ligue 1 in other countries as well.
Hamish AlexanderPublished 8 days ago in Cleats
Never Grow Old
Few could be less qualified to talk about black women in music than I am. After all, I’m a white, middle-class male of late middle age who grew up in a working-class neighborhood in North London, listening to the film music of John Barry and grooving to The Beatles.
Hamish AlexanderPublished 9 days ago in Beat
No Room for Racism
The ritual has become set in stone. Before each and every game, across the major leagues in UK soccer but most notably in the top-flight Premier League, players from the opposing sides kneel around the center circle. They kneel partly in homage to Colin Kaepernick, the one-time NFL quarterback who sacrificed his career to show his support for the Black Lives Matter movement, but mostly as a statement against racism in general, not just in soccer but at every level of society.
Hamish AlexanderPublished 19 days ago in Cleats
No Fans? No Fun.
The banner at Old Trafford stadium is easy to spot even in good times, and these are not good times. ‘Without Fans, We Are Nothing,’ it reads.
Hamish AlexanderPublished 24 days ago in Cleats
California Burning
Even by Bond villain standards, evil industrialist and archetypical bad guy Max Zorin’s plan in the 1985 James Bond movie A View to a Kill was whack.
Hamish AlexanderPublished 28 days ago in Futurism
On Human Origins
Learning about the origins of humankind is not the kind of knowledge that will make your life any easier tomorrow, or even the day after, let alone right now.
Hamish AlexanderPublished 29 days ago in Futurism
