Joshua Surtees
Behind the Scenes at Britain's Most Misunderstood Football Club
Met Police FC represent the long arm of the law, but there's a lot to like at this often-misunderstood non-league club.
Haitians Accuse Dominican Police of Covering Up Motive for Lynching
Last week a Haitian man was found hanged in a public square with his hands and feet bound. But amid a growing outcry over anti-Haitian sentiment, police are dismissing the possibility of a hate crime.
2015's Biggest Soca Tracks Could Heat Your Home for a Week
It's carnival right now in Trinidad, and these are the songs ripping hardest out of the freshly waxed sound system trucks.
Soca Has Been the Sound of Trinidad for 40 Years, but Can It Go Global?
That unmistakable rum-soaked, decadence of the party-loving waist-wining Caribbean island
Trinidad Carnival Will Make You Realise Notting Hill is Just Muggings, Piss and Police
I spent a year in Port-of-Spain falling in love with the most beautiful party in the world.
When Tentacle Penetration Isn't Enough: The Dying Art of Japanese Hentai
The controversial Japanese cartoons pay animators so badly that all the work is now being outsourced to Korea, China, and the Philippines.
Why Are So Many More British Women Getting Butt Implants?
Last summer there was a reported 13 percent rise in fat-transfer operations—where fat is taken from the stomach or thigh area and squeezed into the buttocks—among plastic-surgery clinics in the UK.
Environmental Activist Near Death After 65-Day Hunger Strike in Trinidad
Wayne Kublalsingh is crusading against a plan to build a four-lane highway through a wetlands wildlife habitat in the Caribbean nation.
As Jamaica Reviews Its Homosexuality Ban, a Top Newspaper Is Waging an Anti-Gay Campaign
Owned by the millionaire businessman behind the Sandals Resorts franchise, which banned gay couples until 2004, The Jamaica Observer's coverage has prompted an outcry from LGBT groups.
Here's Why You Should Never Go Out with a Hard Right-Winger
I knew the relationship was doomed as soon as she started talking about burning Gypsies.
Why I Hate Notting Hill Carnival
The piss, the police, the politics – Carnival isn't for black people any more.