A poem I’ve written inspired by my favourite film “Inception”: In dreams we find a world so real, A place where love and loss can heal. A world where we can be ourselves, And live the life we dreamt in shelves. But dreams can quickly turn to night, Where fear…

A poem I’ve written inspired one of my favourite films “Interstellar”: In the vast expanse of space and time, A journey beckons, a quest sublime. Through wormholes and black holes we fly, In search of a future that can’t be denied. The stars above us twinkle bright, Their light a…

A poem I’ve written about technology and innovation inspired by Dylan Thomas. In the land of wires and circuits bright, Where machines hum and screens alight, Innovation pulses with electric might, And technology reigns supreme in sight. From the microchip to the internet’s birth, Each advancement sets the world on…

I don’t believe we come to this world preloaded with meaning – the sheer act of existence is a probabilistic anomaly. I don’t believe the universe is a well-ordered system of necessary truth and causation since we have wars, diseases, crime and natural disasters. But I do believe we all share a unifying purpose – to reduce human suffering. For me, that starts with improving the lives of those within my closest reach. And cultivating my love of art, science and politics. Rather than embrace meaningless and violence, I choose to uphold common sense morality. Rather than despair and wallow in existential self-pity, I choose to find some humour in the suffering that comes with existing while recognising that the only necessary truth is contingency.

Essay question: We are sometimes told that to understand law’s nature one must understand law’s purpose. But law does not have a purpose of its own. It is an instrument that serves the purposes of government.’ Discuss.

Full question: ‘From a purely utilitarian point of view, if the cost of compensating people for personal injury falls on society at large, there is no rational reason to distinguish between personal injury which has been caused by someone’s fault, and personal injury which has occurred without fault. Equally, there…

I’ve spent the morning reflecting on the profound conversation I had yesterday with one of my heroes Kenneth Tharp CBE. He was a huge part of why my #GetDyl2Cambridge campaign went viral on Twitter and I’m forever grateful to him for his continued support and wisdom. Initially it was meant…

Note: Written in my first year at University College London (UCL) The focus of this essay is to compare inductivism with falsificationism in terms of which is a better account of how scientific knowledge is acquired. I shall first state the problem of the essay, and outline the main alternative…

Introduction A hurdle for the scientific explanation of nature is its complexity. My central claim is that Integrative Pluralism (IP) resolves some of the problems associated with the scientific explanation of nature in two ways — the first being parasitic on the second. First, IP integrates different theories, models and…