A tale of two globalisations
Historians have often resented the tendency of some to make shallow historical analogies in analysis. The most painful example has to be the unfortunately common compassion between whatever one...
View ArticleTwo slogans that define our world
‘Let’s Take Back Control’ and ‘Make America Great Again’; slogans that hark back to better times, respectively, before Britain was in the EU and before America was… well that remains unclear, but...
View ArticleWhy was Trump elected?
In the months running up to the election, few in the UK considered Donald Trump to have a viable chance of winning the office of Presidency of the United States. Even after Brexit, most believed that...
View ArticleConspiracy theories take centre stage
The recent US election saw the conspiracy theorists come out to play. Two online purveyors of such theories were Infowars and Breitbart News. The latter enlightened us with revelations with articles...
View ArticleTrump and Farage are role models for aspiring politicians
These days, people are becoming increasingly sick of politicians that represent establishment interests and repeat party lines without passion behind what they are saying. Irrespective of your...
View ArticleGigi Hadid, Melania Trump, and the rise of virtue signalling
The American Music Awards (AMAs) has never been short of controversy. In 2009 its public voting system was criticised for posthumously nominating Michael Jackson for awards such as Artist of the Year —...
View ArticleBlairites should not be so self-assured
How is it that the Blairites and their American equivalents can lose so repeatedly but remain able to convince people that they know anything at all about winning? David lost to Ed, Kendall to Corbyn,...
View ArticleThe misrepresentation of the Syrian conflict
As the world focuses on the global refugee crisis, which has sent countless souls into Europe and safe areas of the Middle East, there seems to be a neglect of the cause of the crisis, and an...
View ArticleStop pretending Fidel Castro was a hero
The death of Fidel Castro — the revolutionary politician who ruled Cuba for more than 40 years — was always going to be momentous for both Cubans and on the grandest of geopolitical stages. It exposed...
View ArticleThe French election will be pivotal for Europe’s future
In the Republicans presidential nominations Francois Fillon reigned triumphant over his opponent, Alain Juppé, in their race for the top seat of France’s centre-right party. There is a mystery...
View ArticleThe Italian referendum: what now?
On the 4th of December, the Italian population was called to vote in a constitutional referendum. The matter at hand was the modification of the structure of the parliamentary system by transforming...
View ArticleThree reasons to oppose the Boycott Israel movement
On Friday 16th, the University of Manchester Students’ Union voted to endorse BDS, the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions campaign. After the vote, the Union said they would be calling for the...
View ArticleWhy Manchester Students’ Union supports BDS
University of Manchester Students’ Union recently passed a policy in support of the BDS (Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions) campaign. The average student may know that this is controversial, but they...
View ArticleStop crying Hitler
Did you know that Adolf Hitler and Barack Obama bear striking similarities to one another? It may sound like an indulgence of the far reaches of online conservatism, but there are a number of not...
View ArticlePresidential pondering: A philosophical analysis
Obama’s 2008 election was probably the first time so many of the millennial generation followed politics in any detail. Personally, the momentous campaign drew me in from the start. America’s financial...
View ArticleWas the Women’s March a waste of energy?
Women’s marches occurred across the world and Trump is still President. They failed. His resignation was not tweeted out the day after his inauguration and Hillary Clinton is not now the first female...
View ArticleWomen’s marches: a cathartic movement with the wrong targets
Supposedly, the women’s marches aimed to have women “join in diversity” whilst at the same time relay “a bold message to our new government on their first day in office, and to the world that women’s...
View ArticleTrump needs to know the wrongs of torture
Trump’s first week as President has been a storm of policies and soundbites for journalists to get their teeth stuck into and citizens of the world to campaign against. Although many of us were...
View ArticleThe new Special Relationship
On the 20th of January 2009, I was 13 years old and watching the inauguration of the 44th President of the United States with my mother. It was of course the historic ceremony that saw Barack Obama...
View ArticleWhich way will the French election go?
With the results of the the Socialist party’s primary, we now know the definitive list of all the candidates for the upcoming French Election. Benoît Hamon, a young socialist, won the primary with 59...
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