This year’s waves of icy weather, the numerous, ‘beasts of the east’, and the Portuguese man’s death could be the wake-up call that Westminster needs.
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What Cambridge Analytica tells us about our dangerous love of technology.
The exposé of Cambridge Analytica is a timely reminder of the lack of understanding we have towards technology.
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Dickens’ A Christmas Carol – The problem with benevolent capitalism
Dickens’ novella A Christmas Carol has been celebrated by socialists and non-socialists alike for its anti-capitalist sentiments following the rapid acceleration of the Industrial Revolution. But with further inspection, Dickens’ glorification of the charitable acts of capitalists highlights not only a pro-capitalist message of the time, but also identifies the ongoing narrative visible in today’s…
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The Death of Diplomacy: Trump vs. May
Another day, another Twitter bomb from the President of the United States. Donald Trump has told UK Prime Minister Theresa May, “don’t focus on me, focus on the destructive Radical Islamic Terrorism that is taking place within the United Kingdom. We are doing just fine!” While the UK is not the first country to be…
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Women’s Voices in the Public Sphere
A couple of weeks ago Theresa May’s conservative party speech delighted Corbynistas and Blairites alike, as both mainstream and social media revelled gleefully in the disaster of it all. There were the falling letters, the prank P45, the unapplauding Boris Johnson, etc. etc. But the focal point of the disaster was May’s inability to speak,…
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Jeremy Corbyn: Impotent
I didn’t go to Jeremy Corbyn’s rally in Leamington Spa yesterday. I didn’t need to. I (and almost everyone else) already knew what he was going to say.
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He wants to help you, not rule you: Jeremy Corbyn
Animated, engaging, inspiring, but still uncertain over Brexit: Jeremy Corbyn comes to Royal Leamington Spa.
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The Bad News of Fake News
The year is 2017, and despite many predictions to the contrary, humanity is still going – just about. One side effect of our continued existence is the decline of facts. It has become blatantly obvious that as humanity advances, our ability to tell the truth declines considerably, to the point I would now add facts…
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Anti-Trump Pro-Love: Women’s March in London
From Grosvenor to Trafalgar Square, a march against Trump, with an estimated 100,000 people in attendance, occurred in London yesterday. For a march against something, the atmosphere of love and hope in the crowd was particularly striking. Yes, they were against Trump – but it was not a march of despair. The weather mirrored the…
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Not just for Christmas… Stop Funding Hate full-stop!
This should not be taken as an attack of the right to free press, and indeed should not be considered a form of censorship, as some critics have stated. Stop Funding Hate tweeted against this notion, and rightly acknowledge that at no point does their campaign call for any paper to be removed from sale.…
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