“The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better.” -George Orwell, 1984 The obvious lesson that has emerged so far in what are the early […]
Windrush Scandal Review Reveals Home Office Ignorance
The highly anticipated Windrush Lessons Learned Review has condemned the Home Office’s treatment of migrants, referring primarily to the Windrush scandal. The review highlights the “profound institutional failure” which caused people who came to the […]
Has the guilty verdict for Harvey Weinstein significantly influenced the #MeToo movement?
The MeToo movement began in 2006 when Tarana Burke created the phrase, however, it was popularized in 2017 when Alyssa Milano encouraged victims of sexual harassment and assault to speak up on Twitter to increase […]
Mental Health At University
In 2017, across all British Universities, one student committed suicide every four days. If a student was dying every four days from COVID-19, there would be widespread panic and action. Yet this obviously serious mental […]
South Korea’s Response To COVID-19
Despite the number of coronavirus cases skyrocketing in South Korea, the country has managed to obtain a low fatality rate, as well as seeing a decrease in their daily rise in the past week. Whilst […]
Putin’s Constitutional Changes Go Under the Radar Outside Russia
While the world’s attention remains fixed on coping with the coronavirus pandemic, major political developments have been taking place almost unnoticed in Russia. For those under the age of 20, they have known no other […]
Security, Data, and the Future of Elections
‘It began with a dream of a connected world. A space where everyone can share experiences and feel less alone. It wasn’t long before this world become our matchmaker, fact-checker, personal entertainer, photo book , […]
Horden: An Example of How Our Political System Is Failing Us
Horden provides a case study of our flawed political system. A system of government that enables those within marginalised and diminished communities to be ignored, even when the decline in the community comes as a […]
Institutionalised Racism Needs To Stop Now
At the beginning of February this year the BBC mistakenly labelled MP Marsha de Cordova as MP Dawn Butler while De Cordova was involved in a debate in the Commons, the mistake lay in that […]
HS2: Yet Another Vanity Project That Ignores the North
Boris Johnson’s green light for the first stage of HS2 (High Speed 2) railway, connecting London to Birmingham, has been a long time in the coming and not without its controversies. Both within parliament and […]
Why I’m Voting for Lisa Nandy to Be The Next Labour Party Leader
The ballot for the Labour Leadership elections opens today (24th February) and I’m already certain about who I’m voting for. Unlike Lisa Nandy, none of the other candidates throughout their leadership campaigns have displayed the […]
Dr Rosena Allin-Khan MP: “Now Is One of The Hardest Times To Be A Student”
As we sit in the upstairs bar of The Pack Horse, after a lively, packed-out talk, I ask Rosena Allin-Khan if the pub is her natural habitat. “Well, it’s certainly one of them; I have […]