The Panama Papers: no surprises
11 million documents recording 40 years of the day-to-day doings of the Panama-based law firm, Mossack Fonseca, have been leaked. They show how the firm has helped the most powerful people on the...
View ArticleWorking and consuming away from progress
Too many people will have missed voting in the recent May elections because they were busy with their work. This common excuse may be considered weak, since polling stations were open until 10pm....
View ArticleThe Calais wall is no solution
An imposing fortification of grey concrete towers above, extending as far either side as the eye can see. From the top, triumphant nationalists wave their flags and cheer in celebration, hell-bent on...
View ArticleThe death of rhetoric in politics
There is an interesting truth about political language in the post-crisis West; the more rational your argument, the more likely it is that you are an establishment shill deceiving the people. In the...
View ArticleWhy we love terrorism
Another attack. What were your first thoughts? Perhaps when you found out, the act had not yet been classified as an act of ‘terror’. In the words of Bill de Blasio, New York Mayor, with reference to...
View ArticleRethinking pathos in the Calais Camp
This summer I visited the Calais refugee camp. There I assisted the charity Help Refugees, who run a project that aims to protect and care for the camp’s 9106 residents who have fled war and unrest in...
View ArticleThe burkini: what’s behind it ?
Islam was once the greatest civilisation on earth. Without their progress in science, mathematics and astronomy, we wouldn’t be so advanced. But today, Islam’s impact on the western world isn’t about...
View ArticleA response to “The Burkini: What’s behind it?”
When I first saw last week’s piece, ‘The Burkini: What’s behind it?’ I was intrigued. I have heard many conceivable viewpoints on the matter since France decided on their ban. But this article was by...
View ArticleCan Labour sell ‘21st Century Socialism’?
The British image from a foreign point of view may include things such as speaking in posh accents, sipping tea, and the bowler hat. Even Channel 4 recently finished airing the second season of Very...
View Article‘God save the Queen’ stands in the way of progress
The refusal to show pride for a flag and national anthem in the United States whilst institutions continue to persecute people of colour should not be a protest that we Brits watch from the sidelines....
View ArticleThe Save the Date campaign: A great idea ruined by propaganda
As the date of the US presidential election gets closer every day, we are all wondering who will be the next President of the United States. Although the polls are close, they tend to put Hillary...
View ArticleThe shambles that is the Labour defence policy
“You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you.” That famous quote from Leon Trotsky seems to have been completely overlooked by today’s Trotskyist worshippers in the Labour party. Mr...
View ArticleA Gibraltarian against Brexit
In the EU referendum of June this year, 96 per cent of British Gibraltarians voted to remain, with an 83.7 per cent turnout. This was the first result to be made public. It far overtook any other...
View ArticleThe fight for the European Union is not over
Theresa May recently announced that Article 50 will be triggered by the end of March 2017. Us Pro-Europeans reacted by comforting ourselves with some Valencian seafood paella and a hefty glass of...
View ArticleThe call of the sea
The oceans have always been a great friend to Britain. As an island nation, we owe our very survival to our status as a sceptred isle. We were saved by the sea from Spain in 1588, from Napoleon’s...
View ArticleRemain voters need to scrutinise Brexiteers like me
If, unlike me, you voted Remain on June the 23rd, you might have encountered some hostility since the referendum. The Brexiteers have come up with a new line: anyone who voted to remain and stands by...
View ArticleThe Russians are not the enemy
“We have done the most terrible thing to you that we could possibly have done. We have deprived you of an enemy.” Those were the words of Gennadi Gerasimov, foreign spokesman for the Soviet Union upon...
View ArticleThe US Election result exposes our ignorance
It seems that many people woke up on Wednesday with the foggy headache and the sickly unease of a post-election hangover, regardless of whether you stayed for the self-medicating and drinking, or tried...
View ArticleThe fourth deception of humanity
When I was a child, I felt a bit sad that I did not get to see most of history. I was too young for 9/11 and not born at the right time for flying cars or the teleportation machine. I had the...
View ArticleHow to Trump university
Last week, Donald Trump was named as the 45th President-elect of the United States. Having campaigned for just under five months, since the 16th of June 2016, Trump’s victory has been met this week...
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