At ground zero in Charlottesville: time to stop making compromises with racism
Flowers laid in the street in in Charlottesville for Heather Heyer, killed by a white supremacist at the 'Unite the Right' rally on Saturday. Photo by Bob Mical, Flickr. I sat…
Why I hate the National Student Survey
Photo: Pixabay use 'skeeze'. Creative Commons The National Student Survey: what’s it all about? I mean, seriously, what the fuck is the NSS supposed to be? I get the…
Learning to say Yes: a reflection on Naomi Klein’s No Is Not Enough
Naomi Klein. Photo: flickr user Ilias Bartolini. Creative Commons license Let’s be honest. Almost 10 years on from the financial crisis – and the ensuing assault on the public…
The tuition fee debate needs to be about so much more than student debt
Photo by Antony Bennison, Creative Commons Licence. Since Labour pledged to scrap tuition fees, the debate around university funding has been blown wide open. Both praise and criticism of…
The myths and realities of government spending
Photo credit: flickr user Peter Creative Commons license: In the general election this May, many political commentators were talking up the Labour party under Corbyn as presenting a significant…
Infinite growth: humanity’s deadliest addiction
Image credit: Pixaby user Ralph Creative Commons CC0 For decades economists and politicians across the world have been using GDP growth as the primary means of measuring economic success.…
Let Them Burn: The Logic of Capitalism Meets the Reality of Climate Change
Image credit: Pixaby user 'skeeze' In her piece titled “Let Them Drown: The Violence of Othering in a Warming World,” Naomi Klein takes aim at the handful of fossil…
Votes at 16, Von Trapps and Viable Electoral Reform
Photo credit: flickr user H2Woah! Creative Commons license: “I am 16 going on I know that I’m naive”; a classic quote from Liesel Von Trapp of ‘The Sound of…
All Hail Sir Vince
So, Sir Vincent Cable has finally manipulated and schemed his way to the top of his Party, unopposed, like the king of a war-torn, pillaged and ruined land no…
As the climate clock strikes midnight it’s time to look to the morning
Climate change will profoundly reshape our world in the coming decades. Yet, in this article, I make a case for why we should not give in to despair and apathy.…