Let’s be practical about Shamima Begum │ Jake Scott
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...
Category: Comment
Clerics, Madrassas and Evangelicals: Sexual Abuse in Religion | Sarah Stook
Sexual abuse in religion is a scandal that everybody seems to know about but nobody seems to really talk about. When the Catholic child sexual abuse scandal broke in 2002 after a groundbreaking investigation...
Have we reached peak hysteria yet? | Jake Scott
“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...
The Conservative Party’s dilemma on economical & social liberalism with young people | Chris Rose
In the latest YouGov survey, Jeremy Corbyn’s popularity has plummeted by 45 points in the last 18 months, fueled by his ambiguous stance on Brexit. It was inevitable after a year on ineffective opposition...
Catholics need to demand moral clarity | Joseph Prebble
The Covington Catholic High School school website is still down after days of protest from organised groups. The school has undergone a nightmarish few days after its delegation to last Saturday’s March For Life...
The Dangers of The Twitter Mob | Sarah Stook
“Oh my god X is cancelled.’ ‘#xisoverparty.’ For our older or non-Twitter users, that may as well have been written in Latin. Sadly, that is not a long forgotten language, but a language used...
Macron, Theresa May and the time of reckoning for elitism │ Tom Colsy
London, United Kingdom – Prime Minister Theresa May survives a no confidence vote; led by the free-market Eurosceptic and internationalist Remain wings of her party – both she has polarised and neither she has...
“The Third Reich wasn’t real Fascism anyway” │ Marc James Beaton
Think, for a moment, about the modern day internet troll. You may well instantly conjure up an image of some twenty-something neckbeard who still lives with his parents who spends all day online, every...
Populism and the “People’s Vote” | Jake Scott
We all know the official story: Brexit was a “populist revolt”, a rare moment when the “silent majority” finally expressed their anger at the political changes they felt were beyond their grasp yet influenced...
The Fetishizing, Representation and Demonizing of the Working Class | Sarah Stook
The working class is a conundrum for many. Our politicians constantly try to be one the side of the working classes, showing off the comprehensive school they went off to, the tax cuts they...
