LONDON WRITING GUY

I want to point anyone that takes interest in this blog to a brilliant piece published in the New York Times. With additional research...

Jaspreet Kaur is an award-winning spoken word artist. 'Brown Girl Like Me' is Jaspreet's debut publication.

The story of Permi Jhooti - The 'real-life' Bend It Like Beckham and the first British-Asian professional footballer in the UK.

It was a year ago today that I hit the ‘Publish’ button on the Wix back-end to push through my first blog post, as the London Writing...

Why does the combination of South Asians and running seem like an oxymoron? Marathon runner, Amritpal Ghatora, talks about his journey.

When Jas Singh received the call up for his Championship debut, against Sussex back in July, it was the last thing on his mind. “At the...

Cricket presenter and commentator, Matt Kabir Floyd, discusses his thoughts on unconscious bias and racism, within the game of cricket.

Cricket was integral to the British Empire. It embodied all that was English. Anything else, well, just wasn’t ‘cricket.’ But what does...

Discussing the topic of empire can be a very dividing and volatile subject. Just ask Sathnam Sanghera, the author of the best-selling...

Cricket has seen a 75% decline in Black player participation. The ACE programme is aims to address this.

How Lord's cricket ground became the home of one of the largest GP-led vaccine operations in London.

Dr. Fletcher's research helped inform some of decisions made by the ECB, with regards to improving South Asian participation.

A conversation about the force's initiatives & commitment towards change.

The silent epidemic of alcoholism, within the Punjabi Sikh community, could be impacting the success of current & next generation talent.

The London Cricket Trust aims to put cricket back into London's parks.

Imran talks about his journey, community, culture & fitting in.

High school lunch times were a muddy affair. Largely spent on the school field. Bumpy, uneven, sometimes large areas of no grass at all....

A conversation about the struggle for state-educated kids, women and people of Asian heritage, in cricket.

I had just finished working for the day and my dad and I got in the car. It’s the start of June. Sod’s law that the pandemic seemed to...