In June 2016, before the Brexit referendum, I predicted that Britain would vote to Leave the European Union. Mercifully, I wasn’t alone; many people predicted such an outcome, and for many different reasons. Roger...
I will hold my hands up and admit it – I was hoodwinked by May and “her team”. I genuinely believed the result of the European Union Referendum would be respected, and we would...
Two announcements in the last week or so have filled me with hope for the new government: the first, that Home Secretary Priti Patel wants criminals to feel ‘literal terror’ at the thought of...
I’m not going to wax lyrical about the immoral practice of watching pornography, or the objectification involved in the persons who both watch and “perform” in it. That is a debate for moral and...
Broadly speaking, ideologies are the prism through which we understand politics in the contemporary world. When we discuss politics, we often do so in the language of ideologies, talking of “capitalism” and “feminism” as...
Theresa May’s lame-duck deal for us to exit the European Union has been (on multiple occasions at the time of writing) resoundingly defeated in the British parliament. And of course, questions followed on what...
Polarisation is becoming something of a zeitgeist in British politics – it’s always been the case that two parties, representing opposing ideologies, have dominated our elections, but the underlying assumptions across the people of...
Neoliberalism is the defining socio-economic ideology of our world. For many, it is nothing but a success: it has lifted millions across the world out of absolute poverty, relative poverty and, for some, into...
British media has blown up over the last few days about the revelation of Shamima Begum, the London schoolgirl who, at the age of 15, fled the UK to join ISIS in their murderous...
“There will be a food shortage” – unfeasible, but forgivable. “The NHS will run out of key pharmaceuticals” – extraordinarily unlikely. “The buses will grind to a halt” – absurd, yet a welcome relief...
