Tuck Magazine had another ‘successful’ year, the number of articles and writers published, in addition to readers around the world increasing from the previous year.
1721 articles were published in 2017, from 540 different writers around the world.
We are indebted to our contributors, readers and friends for ensuring that Tuck Magazine, an independent and free press, continues to be an inspiring read, reporting on important issues, making each think and reflect on the world around them.
When looking back on a year one invariably focuses on the negative, particularly relating to news, politics and current affairs. 2017 was of course no exception in this regard, the year being dominated by Donald Trump’s presidency, in addition to the increasingly disturbing rise of the far right around the world. It is no surprise that the former is here linked with the latter, Trump’s daily activities, be they via twitter, an executive order or other ill-judged statement or action, causing distress or bewilderment in equal measures.
Another story that has and continues to dominate is that of inappropriate sexual behaviour or sexual abuse, the former Hollywood Miramax mogul Harvey Weinstein earlier this year being outed by fellow celebs in the press. This is in stark contrast to the large number of serious allegations of child sexual abuse in previous years against not only celebrities but MPs, government officials and members of the clergy, most of which were dismissed and ridiculed by the press. One can only hope that following the rise of such allegations against Weinstein, Spacey, Hoffman, Allen and all, as well as the relative acceptance of such by the public and mainstream media, that the aforementioned child abuse claims be looked into again and treated with the same level of respect and seriousness they surely deserve.
As for this magazine we will for as long as possible endeavour to continue reporting on as many important stories from around the world, centering on human rights, empowering and giving each a voice that may not necessarily be heard elsewhere. For this we rely on the goodwill, passion and integrity of not only our writers, but also readers who play an equally important role.
Most media outlets around the world are in their own financial turmoil, clamouring for the hits and readers that are becoming more and more precious by the day, the seemingly all important advertising dollar being the be all and end all of their business, integrity and the original goal of providing an unbiased and free media fading into obscurity. It is disturbing to see even respectable news outlets and publications conceding to the inevitable and posting inappropriate and often irrelevant content on their site, not to mention the glut of advertisers attached. Tuck Magazine has had numerous offers from such advertisers and content ‘creators’ and, while the need for revenue to pay our writers and running costs is perhaps greater than most given we have no financial support, will not back down, lose focus or compromise our vision and the important work we publish. Despite the relative inevitability therefore of another media outlet crashing to the wayside, and failing of course a hefty lottery win or wealthy backer(s), Tuck will continue for as long as possible until the inescapable gloom overcomes and reality of the media in the modern apathetic, indifferent, celebrity obsessed age finally calls a day on another important outlet.
For now however we thank 2017’s talented contributors without whom we would not be publishing each week day:
Chine Labbé
Cynthia M. Lardner
Gérard Bon
Gloria Nakiyimba
Hazel Speed
Prince Charles Dickson
Rick Davis
Sami Jamil Jadallah
Tanushree Ghosh
Kanwal Abidi
Abigail Rathbone
David R Mellor
Tom Arms
Joe Khamisi
Cliff Graham
Ananya S Guha
Ogunniyi Abayomi
Wally Swist
Thambu Kanagasabai
Rafah Al Saad
Charlie Brice
Siddhartha Rastogi
Therese Young Kim
Ricardo Swire
Michael Holden
Estelle Shirbon Prime
Jennifer N. Shannon
Sarah Ito
Prakash Bimil
Prince Adetunji Fabode
Imad Zafar
Ahmed Tharwat
Nelson CJ
Alève Mine
Samuel Ayoade
Akinpelu Yusuf
Santosh Kumar Pokhrel
Magdalena Mis
Emily Bilman
Abdulrahman M Abu-yaman
Moses Chukwuemeka Daniel
Deborah Kahan Kolb
Rina Chandran Anjali
Abasi Torty Tortivie
Daipayan Nair
Ayesha Rascoe
Kumarathasan Rasingam
Allison Grayhurst
Dave Patterson
Anoucheka Gangabissoon
Valda Organ
Jill Crainshaw
Madamidola Oladele
Quleen Kaur Bijral
Ebi Robert
Jose Kalathil
Rajesh Nair
Bikash Mohapatra
Olivia Vande Woude
Joseph Besong
Broken Montague
Stella Allou
Katy Migiro
Samantha Neugebauer
Muhammad Shoaib Khan
Rupen Savoulian
Lisa Morris
P C K Prem
Umberto Bacchi
Ellen Wulfhorst
Sheila Scobba Banning
Abdulkareem Awwal Opeyemi
Maayan Lubell
Tara Sattar
Mark Davis
Saru Pokharel
Michel Rose
Sudip Kar-Gupta
Samir Raiti Mtamba
Sylvain Muyali
Linda M Crate
Amit Shankar Saha
Lin Taylor
Valeria Cardi
Stephen Philip Druce
Binoy Kampmark
Emma Batha
Kanyinsola Olorunnisola
Jo-Ella Sarich
Paul Carrel
Hakan Erdem
Lianne Kamp
Julia Love
Jessica Toonkel
Tim Baysinger
Eaton Jackson
Esomnofu Ebelenna
Toby Melville
William James
Durodola Tosin
Eddie Awusi
Iwu Jeff
Ujjwala Kakarla
Robert Kilborn
Byobe Malenga
Musa Gift Masombuka
Durgesh Verma
Sheuli Akter
Scott Thomas Outlar
Sneha Subramanian Kanta
Ittrika Pandit
Zeeshan A. Shah
Dov Weinman
J.J.Campbell
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Indunil Madhusankha
Thomas Escritt
Toby Sterling
Harshal Desai
Nicole Surginer
Carl Scharwath
Philip Blenkinsop
Pitambar Naik
Laboni Saif
Alok Mishra
Leslie Philibert
Gopal Lahiri
Sandy Rochelle
Nivedita Dey
Vishal Ajmera
Wole Oguntola
John Jimoh
Kofi Acquah
Emmanuel Joseph
Micheal Ace
Michael Chin
G David Schwartz
Safia Izhar
Alexandra Umlas
Daginne Aignend
Obaji-Nwali Shegun
Anuradha Nagaraj
I.B. Rad
Hira Azhar
Penn Kemp
Crystal Snoddon
Awesu Olaniyi Williams
Susan Bellfield
Katy Migiro
Amore David Olamide
Vatsala Radhakeesoon
Emmanuel Jarry
Md. Khaled Hosen
Akinola Sesan
Ndifreke George
Kanwal Abidi
John Irish
Santosh Kumar Pokhrel
Chetna Joshi Bambroo
Bate Felix
James Dennis Casey IV
Vickie Zisman
JD DeHart
Sybille de La Hamaide
Matthias Blamont
Alejandro Escudé
Leigh Thomas
Ryan Quinn Flanagan
Michael Mulvihill
Peter Louis
Bikash Mohapatra
Stephen Faulkner
Lisa Morris
Ian Fletcher
David R Mellor
Lianne Kamp
Blanca Alicia Garza
Beate Sigriddaughter
Marieta Maglas
Adrian Croft
Elizabeth Pineau
P.J. Johnson
Fee Thomas
Vera Ignatowitsch
Sunil Sharma
Alan Britt
Hongri Yuan
John Chizoba Vincent
Ifa Agnes
Ingrid Melander
Anoucheka Gangabissoon
Nurul Hoque
Donatella Rovera
Ògbeni Làgbàyí
Anastasia Moloney
Ahmed Tharwat
Ken Allan Dronsfield
Ramona Thompson
William James
Patrick Graham
Gary Beck
Hakeem Enesi Momoh
Denis Dyomkin
Sarah Ito
Martina Reisz Newberry
Noah Barkin
Sean Kelbley
Yasser M. Dhouib
Robin Emmott
Steve Holland
Leslie Philibert
Mary Ann Callahan
Pranab Ghosh
Tejasvi Saxena
Florence Joseph
Kylie MacLellan
Michael Holden
Matthew J Hall
Jon Super
Akuchie Ifeanyi Michael
J.R. Wu
Naa Dedei Botchwey
Ratnesh Dwivedi
Harlan Yarbrough
Michael Joseph Patton
Ayesha Rascoe
Ken Poyner
Ennin Kwaku Godfred
Matthew J. Lawler
JoyAnne O’Donnell
Fadi Elhusseini
Ngozi Olivia Osuoha
Nasreen Iqbal Kasana
Benedicte Kumbi
Kabedoopong Piddo Ddibe’st
Mathieu Rosemain
Andrew Callus
Howard Debs
Opal Ingram
Renee Drummond-Brown
Don Krieger
Dragos Niculescu
Clive Aaron Gill
Madhabi Das
Anindita Bose
Sally Hayden
Johnny B
Byron Kaye
Philip Pullella
Jerome-Mario Utomi
Andrew Hubbard
Mica Rosenberg
Andrew Chung
Stephanie van den Berg
Stela Xega
Constance van Niekerk
Nome Emeka Patrick
Uduak Uwah
Femi Tunde Okunlola
Anahit Arustamyan
Alyssa Trivett
Ayeyemi Taofeek
Isaac Abban
Kayode Afolabi
Gift Friday
Patricia Zengerle
Susan Cornwell
Eugene Skeef
Mehedi Hasan
Kumar Hassan
Darrell Herbert
Trish Wootten
John Grey
Andy Bruce
Alistair Smout
Jan Wiezorek
Nixon Mateulah
Valerie Volcovici
Jeff Mason
Bernard Ollo
Bijay Kumar Show
Anant Mishra
Richa Chadha
Koraly Dimitriadis
Ajmal Khan
Pat Ashinze
Damiam Vincent Henry
Ogundele Faith Oluwaranti
Oshogbemi A E Peter
Elisabeth Horan
Ugwu Leonard Elvis
Bob Eager
Raminder Paul Singh
Katie Lewington
Shahper Hassan
Oki Kehinde Julius
Muhammad Nasrullah Khan
Raymond Asante
Roshini Shetty
Sheena Pillai Singh
Abdulrazak Iliyasu Sansani
Paul Brookes
Rahul Mall
Michael T. Bee
Samuel Son
Munia Khan
Mbizo Chirasha
Ibrahim Ayobami Balogun
Tamanna Hossain
Jameel W. Karaki
KJ Hannah Greenberg
Ricky Garni
Amit Parmessur
Donise Sheppard
Lynn White
Steve Carr
Daniel Casey
Alisa Velaj
Surbhi Anand
Ilda Lamçe
Kanika Gautam
Penn Kemp
Anca Mihaela Bruma
Gerry Sikazwe
Mark W. Jones
Zena Howard
Amlan Biswas
Success Akpojotor
Jeff Rasley
Devon Balwit
Sanju Clement
Javed Ahmed
Sourav Sarkar
Purabi Bhattacharya
F. S. Byrne
Muhammad Mushtaq Khan
Jake Aller
Jennifer Scott
Victor Ola-Matthew
Maria Tosti
Megan Collins
Laureta Petoshati
Gareth Culshaw
Gary Glauber
Douglas Patterson
Sarah Ream
Bob McNeil
Sanjeev Sethi
Kakali Karmakar
Jillian Haslam
Sohail Mahmood
Paul Ilechko
Fisuyi Tolulope
Beulah Kleinveldt
Jonathan Otamere Endurance
Eze Ifeanyichukwu Peter
Harry Ricciardi
Poornima Laxmeshwar
Kingson Chingakham
Rony Nair
Nikita Parik
Zion Victor-Tade
Jon Vreeland
Amara Sesay
R. James
Husniya
Chidi Anthony Opara
Mobolaji Olawale
Joel Schueler
Judy Alexander Brice
Mirissa D. Price
Ernest Gordon Taulbee
Oluwa Seun Tiwistar
Tom Roth
Maryam Gatawa
Shola Balogun
Aakriti Kuntal
Shabir Ahmad Mir
Michael Lee Johnson
Cecilia Sandroni
Mario Vitale
Steve Robertson
Eliza Segiet
Karlo Sevilla
Susan Ranford
Ben White
Marc Brightside
Alpha Jallow
Ashi Kalim
Ogunsanya Enitan Olalekan
Henneh Kyereh Kwaku
Najib Adamu Usman
Siraj A Sabuke
Rajnish Mishra
Justin Fox
John Watt
Olubela Murewa
Peter H Armitage
Kapardeli Eftichia
Ann Christine Tabaka
Nsah Mala
Dustin Pickering
Sofia Kioroglou
Kathy Gibbons
Dime Maziba
Casey M. Millette
Debendra Kumar Bauri
R.L.M. Cooper
Lynne Zotalis
Sona Maniar
Erika Kamp
Saliha Khalid
Satis Shroff
Debbie Hall
Alycia Vreeland
Darren C. Demaree
Mitchell Krockmalnik Grabois
Adam Levon Brown
Nwoba Chika Nwoba
Olabusayo Ajay
Catherine Rauchenberger Conley
Jacqueline Jules
Pramod Kumar Das
Fatimah Bakare-Dickson
David Lohrey
Umarani Jayaraj
Emily Strauss
Michele Leavitt
Hermann-Habib Kibangou
Faleeha Hassan
Robert Boucheron
Fanuel Lakew
Frederick Omari Okonneh
Krista Clark
Selden Cummings
Selorm Adoboe
Bevan Boggenpoel
Caroline Johnson
Judy Shepps Battle
Gil Trythall
Chandrani Banerjee
Nyashadzashe Chikumbu
Alina Maria
Joe Balaz
Trish Hopkinson
Grant Guy
PW Covington
Ferris E Jones
Hareem Fatima
Bronson Thomas
Chetna Joshi Bambroo
Marites Gueta
Alan Share
John D Robinson
Amreen Qadir
Julie Petersen
S Liam Spradlin
Adamu Usman Garko
Corina Constantinescu
Soren Paul Petrek
Mike Griffith
Mileva Anastasiadou
Amara Femoh Sesay
Gulam Yazdani
Kelechi A Anthony
Rania Moudaress Silva
J.J. Campbell
Nitusmita Saikia
Ebere Terr Ebere
Agunbiade Kehinde Adeshina
Yvonne Higgins Leach
Oluwapelumi Francis Salako
Brian Crandall
Ernest Ogunyemi
Norberto Franco Cisneros
Zeke Jarvis
Abigail George
Sandy Olson-Hill
Clive Collins
Marguerite Guzman Bouvard
Hugo J. Quizhpi
Ankita Anand
Marcus Agar
Riham Adly
Gail White
T.S. Bob
Kingsley Alumona
Sarah Bigham
Omar Khan
Dev Dutt
WJP Newnham
Nandini Srivastava
Muhammad Auwal Ibrahim
Ahmad Al-Khatat
Beatrice Hunter
Kate Rae
John Balouziyeh
Santosh Bakaya
Utpal Chakraborty
Maria Lagdameo
Jill Kiesow
Linda Imbler
Anna Green
Anil Trigunayat
Katelyn Thomas
Howard Brown
Vanessa de Largie
Blessing T Masenga
Sydney Saize
Philani Amadeus Nyoni
Michael Mwangi Macharia
Tynoe Wilson
Julius Muriithi
John Eppel
Sadiqullah Khan
Catherine Magodo-Mutukwa
Jurgen Troy Namupira
Oladipo Kehinde Paul
Pasi Gunguwo
Richmore Tera
Ambassador Dan Amakor
Caesar Obong
Brighton Busybee Muponda
Tendai Mwanaka
Mbonisi Zikhali
Gopichand Paruchuri
Cosmas Mairosi
Richard Mbuthia
Akor Emmanuel Oche
Aleck T Mabenge
Theodora Chirapa
Simbarashe Jongwe
Emmanuel Douglas Mulomole
Sinkende Mashayangombane
Wafula P’Khisa
S Kojo Frimpong
Rich Unger
Patrick Kamau
Liz Berry
A happy, peaceful and prosperous 2018 to everyone.