The Big Issue

Full circle

It’s amazing how oǼten the initial spark for doing or making something is some small, seemingly insignificant, issue that has always annoyed you. In the case of A Circle of Five it is that snapshot portrayal of the ‘Windrush Generation’ in popular media.

Is there anyone on the planet who has not seen that short newsreel clip of black men and women cautiously walking down the gangplank of the MV Empire Windrush the day after it arrived at Tilbury Dock in

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