Ned Donovan

Is Zayn Malik as delighted as I am by Azealia Banks’ Twitter ban?

There aren’t too many things I have in common with Zayn Malik, but as of this week, we do at least now have a shared enemy: Azealia Banks, the American rapper and part-time witch. She took to Twitter on Wednesday to send racist tweets to the former One Direction star, including one in which she called him a ‘curry scented bitch’. The think pieces have not stopped since. This is not a think piece from an outsider though, but from one of Miss Banks’ other victims.

I first came into contact with her last month when she threatened on Twitter to kill a friend of mine’s mother using a voodoo curse, after the said friend mocked her ancient African magic ‘powers’. I asked whether her message was appropriate, given that if any non-celebrity had sent such a tweet, the account would have been banned almost immediately.

Within minutes of offering up my opinion, I started to receive a mad chain of insults from Banks, which made an otherwise quiet afternoon in the office vastly more exciting.

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