New BBC impartiality rules: more of the same – or a fresh moderating touch?
At the end of September, the BBC enacted a new set of rules for the impartiality of their flagship presenters,...
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University of Leeds strikes show no sign of resolution
As I walked onto campus for the first day of teaching of the semester I passed a group of striking...
Finding Common Ground: Can You Separate the Art from the Artist?
In hopes of ‘Finding Common Ground’, this month’s debaters discussed cancel culture and the ever present question: can, and should,...
Is Andrew Tate Fuelling a Masculinity Crisis?
Women are men’s property, they should “bear some responsibility” for being raped, and men should “have the control” over women’s...
The US Endeavour for Eternal Sun-Time
Time. A construct manipulated globally in the turn of the clocks which for us Brits, saw a spring forward at...
An Impartiality Crisis in the BBC
"If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear"...
Finding Common Ground: Climate Activism
For our second edition of the column Tala and Gabe discussed climate activism, hoping to find some common ground. Last...
Anti-Trade Union Laws Must Be Resisted
As strikes take place across the U.K., the Conservative Party is planning to introduce a wave of anti-union and anti-strike...
Is Zelenskyy Truly 2022’s ‘Person of the Year’?
Ever heard of Mazloum Abdi? Nope? Well, me neither. He’s an interesting bloke, though – the head of the Syrian...
How Worried Should We Be About the Threat of the Far-Right?
The far-right has long been a threat to western democracies, and today they may be the most dangerous that we...