The regular column of Jake Scott, Editor and Doctoral Researcher.
‘Don’t look back in anger’ was the message to Mancunians especially, and Brits at large in the wake of the 2017 Manchester Arena bombing. Salman Ramadan Abedi, the monster who carried out the attack,...
It is a natural truth of politics that there must be boundaries to a people over whom governance is to be exercised. Indeed, as Michael Oakeshott remarked, politics is the activity of attending to...
It wasn’t long after the BBC “banned virtue signalling” amongst its employees that certain vocal elements began to ask if that included the poppy. Of course, such a question provokes instinctive reaction from most...
I am prepared, at this stage, to concede that Joe Biden will win the Presidency (even if President Donald Trump will not). So, we need to consider what the reality of a Joe Biden...
On Wednesday 28th October, the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) completed its report into the allegations of anti-semitism in the Labour Party. The findings are, to say the least, dismally upsetting. The result...
As a Doctoral Researcher in political theory, some might find it strange that I am writing this piece. I have spent five of my last six years in academia, passing through the typical stages...
The internet erupted in furore on Thursday when news broke of a film called ‘Cuties’ being published by the online streaming service Netflix. The film is billed as an empowering story of a young girl who defies her...
Not that long ago on my own site, I wrote that our politics was facing what I called an existential split, arguing that there existed a liberal Britain and a conservative Britain. It was...
At the time of writing, Britain is easing itself out of lockdown. At the time of publication (I hope) the country will have emerged, blinking, into the light. It feels as though we have...
There has, in the last five years predominantly, crept into our vernacular a strange inability to say the truth, and a comparable absurdity in being unable to deny its opponents. Only recently was a...
Auden’s Ode to Ecumenism | Georgia L. Gilholy
22 Oct, 2020
The Dispute Over “Britishness” | Alex Johnson
6 Jul, 2020
Twitter Should Not Be Free | John Power
21 Jan, 2021
