At ground zero in Charlottesville: time to stop making compromises with racism
I sat in the sweltering side-chapel of St. Paul’s Memorial Episcopal Church on a humid Friday evening in Charlottesville, listening to the Reverend Traci Blackmon preach a fiery sermon....
Michael Gove’s actions are simply not enough
There’s a real environmental catastrophe happening, right now. Michael Gove’s twisted vision of a capitalistic ‘green’ future puts us all at risk from excessive pollution levels; especially children, the elderly and those with health problems. As his appointment as environmental secretary, Michael Gove has not progressed far enough to...
Why I hate the National Student Survey
The National Student Survey: what’s it all about? I mean, seriously, what the fuck is the NSS supposed to be? I get the rhetoric about giving an opinion...
Learning to say Yes: a reflection on Naomi Klein’s No Is Not Enough
Let’s be honest. Almost 10 years on from the financial crisis – and the ensuing assault on the public sector it provoked – we’re all exhausted, spiritually, intellectually...
‘The Tory Glastonbury’: The Conservatives’ hilarious attempt at winning back the youth vote
“Why is it just the left who have all the fun in politics?” whined Conservative MP George Freeman to the Financial Times last week. The politician, who represents the Mid...
The tuition fee debate needs to be about so much more than student debt
Since Labour pledged to scrap tuition fees, the debate around university funding has been blown wide open. Both praise and criticism of the policy has come thick and...
The myths and realities of government spending
In the general election this May, many political commentators were talking up the Labour party under Corbyn as presenting a significant departure from established wisdom, with those on...
Infinite growth: humanity’s deadliest addiction
For decades economists and politicians across the world have been using GDP growth as the primary means of measuring economic success. The faster an economy grows, the more...
Let Them Burn: The Logic of Capitalism Meets the Reality of Climate Change
In her piece titled “Let Them Drown: The Violence of Othering in a Warming World,” Naomi Klein takes aim at the handful of fossil fuel corporations who have...
Votes at 16, Von Trapps and Viable Electoral Reform
“I am 16 going on 17… I know that I’m naive”; a classic quote from Liesel Von Trapp of ‘The Sound of Music’ stardom. A quote not least...