Labour’s National Party Forum
With Miliband outlining the direction of Labour’s efforts what will it mean for you? The conservative party has long been critical of Labour’s intentions, accusing them of using the same….
Category: Politics
What is “the N-word” anyway?
Jeremy Clarkson’s (most) recent indiscretion, and the firing of a BBC DJ for playing a song whose lyrics contain a verse in which the racial epithet is used have brought….
Sexism in the 21st Century
One could be forgiven for thinking that after 3 million years of evolution, we would be prepared to accept that an extra quarter of a chromosome is not actually a….
Video Game Violence is only a Convenient Scapegoat
Just a few days ago, a 61-year-old teacher of Spanish was brutally stabbed to death in front of her class in Leeds. The 15-year-old boy who is suspected of committing….
Social Democracy – Could This Be The Next Big Thing?
Working in Social Media means that I see new trends happening worldwide everyday with billions of people uniting to discuss a particular thing. Anything from celebrities to particular causes, favourite music and a….
Sarajevo, Western Poland, Sloviansk?
Today, Ukrainian forces have stormed Sloviansk, a pro-Russian stronghold in the East of the country. Following the events in Kiev and Crimea, the Ukrainian authorities seem to be asserting their….
Income Inequality – Is Rooney Worse Than Gulliver, Jenkins, Horta-Osório and McEwan?
While taking a few hours off over the weekend, I took the opportunity to watch my beloved Tottenham Hotspur take on Fulham in a Barclays Premier League football match. During….
Rwanda’s 20-Year Recovery – The Aftermath of a Genocide
Looking back twenty years to a small landlocked African state called Rwanda, extreme and appalling atrocities were being committed with the intention of exterminating a group of people called the Tutsis. The Genocide….
India Allows “Third” Gender Self-Identification
We have come a long way in the past ten years on equality in the fields of gender and sexuality. Most recently, while Northern Ireland are still lagging behind, the….
Censorship of the Right
Freedom of Speech is one of the great virtues of our modern society. The right to be able to say more or less what you want no matter how blunderingly….