Recently, protests in the United States broke out in response to the murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police. The Black Lives Matter movement, driven to immediate action by this tragedy, continues its long fight against the systemic mistreatment of African Americans. In it’s wake the idea of defunding the police has gained momentum across […]Read More
Looking into the Northern Ireland executive starting to cooperate during the Covid-19 pandemic despite a three year absence from its devolved Parliament, Stormont.Read More
Rebecca Long-Bailey sacked after controversial retweet Read More
Michael Wolff was an author who made his name through his famous book ‘Fire and Fury’. This was a book that hit headlines hugely near the beginning of the Donald Trump presidency. Its purpose was to highlight the disgusting behaviour exhibited by not only Trump himself, but by the staffers and campaigners throughout his campaign […]Read More
America has always been proud of its claim to freedom, but recent Black Lives Matter protests are revealing how much of the country's past is a lie.Read More
While the world was distracted with the coronavirus pandemic, China made a move on Hong Kong. The familiar sights of now masked protesters in the streets was triggered by a new national security law proposed by Chinese authorities for the territory. The ramifications of this bill, which bypasses local legislators, has provoked reactions around the […]Read More
With New Zealand edging closer and closer towards its elimination goal of Coronavirus, Jacinda Ardern's leadership style is certainly to thank for this.Read More
A list of organizations accepting donations to support the #blacklivesmatter movement, bail out protestors, and help other communities in need. Read More
Last December, a gang of thugs waltzed into No.10 under the cover of an Orwellian mist. They had spoken the right words in convenient soundbites, said yes to the right interviews and crucially, no to others. The victorious party is now run by ‘Dom’ who’s groomed himself into the ominous Machiavellian villain lurking in the […]Read More
Boris Johnson had what alcoholics call a ‘moment of clarity’ whilst on his sickbed, announcing, “there is such a thing as society”; a superficial contradiction of Thatcherism. Where Thatcher may have little in common, rhetorically speaking, with Ayn Rand’s philosophy of Objectivism, the outcome of her policies illustrates some similarity. The Russian-American author’s novels, The […]Read More
Serving as a timely update to Chomsky and Herman’s Manufacturing Consent, Rolling Stone journalist Matt Taibbi’s book Hate Inc. lays out how corporations subsumed the media. Read More
How COVID-19 is changing the social class structure and the recognition of “low-skilled” labour. COVID-19 has altered many things in the UK that were thought to be steadfast. From national supply chains, to the NHS itself, the pandemic has questioned many things and demonstrated that we are not as resistant to crises as we naively […]Read More
Last Tuesday during the ITV pre-election debate between Boris Johnson and Jeremy Corbyn, the Conservative Party renamed the official @CCHQPress Twitter account to ‘factcheckUK’. The party also temporarily replaced its profile picture with a tick logo and a header image with the logo, the text ‘factcheck UK’ and then in much smaller font ‘from CCHQ’, […]Read More
Yesterday we all witnessed something quite unprecedented. The UK’s highest court led by its President Lady Hale held that the British government’s decision to prorogue Parliament in the run up to the impending Brexit deadline was unlawful and, therefore, void. This past week has seen our major constitutional players – the judiciary, the government and […]Read More
In the war between information and misinformation, by far the greatest weapon of all is mass media. A media that, unfortunately, more and more frequently is being utilised for the spread of misinformation of not only political matters but also scientific ones. Recently, there seems to have been a huge spike in the spread of […]Read More
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