If you have ever seen the film-cum-popular TV Programme, “This is England”, then you will know the area where I grew up, selected as the filming location due to its resemblance of Britain of...
The much coveted `Red Wall` seats Labour lost to the Conservatives at the last general election came as a surprise to many. Whilst I expected some marginal seats to fall, I was left drop-jawed...
At about this time of year the British media would usually begin to take a more pronounced interest in the presidential election over the pond. As it is, we have more pressing – and...
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...
Earlier this year when reporting restrictions were lifted and the media were finally allowed to release the details of Manchester mass-rapist Reynhard Sinaga, I was convinced that this would be the start of a...
If there is a deeper question underlying the political issues of today, it is the fundamental question of free speech, and the polarisation between “free-speech fundamentalism” and “PC culture”. This polarisation seems to have...
Decayed and desacralized, gone are the days in which we can relish in romance without being called hopeless. An act once purely of love between a husband and wife, the artwork in which two...
I have recently finished, A Clergyman’s Daughter, by George Orwell. This completed the catalogue of Orwell books, both fiction and non-fiction. Like Christopher Hitchens, who liked to proclaim that he had, ‘read every word that...
When you look at these feminists, you’re hardly looking at the most downtrodden of all women. They live in a free country, have the financial means to take a day off work to travel to the city (Inauguration Day is not a federal holiday) and contrary to popular belief, not victims of systematic oppression due to gender.
Written pieces are usually made with the intention of graceful ageing, but this time two months ago when I criticised the government’s failures, I can genuinely say that I did not ever predict this...
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