West-Eastern Storyman: Lord Patten on China and Diplomacy
"Both historical vignettes speak to the complexity of international relations and its continuity between past and present, between West and East. And as the last colonial governor of Hong Kong, Lord Patten’s life serves to bridge these eras and civilisations."
Ghosts of Christmas Past: strikes and parliamentary self-fictionalisation.
Moving away from the twentieth century seems unappealing to some members of the Tory party
The House of Lords – Necessary reform?
A more pragmatic approach would be to enact targeted reform.
Voter Identification: A dangerous pathway to unnecessary discrimination
"The biggest problem with ID requirements is that they are inherently discriminatory."
The Silenced Majority: The Forty-Year-Old Conspiracy to Abolish American Democracy
"While QAnon-spouting Trumpers certainly are frightening, these black-robed theocrats send a shiver down my spine unlike any other."
The time for rhetoric is over: We need safe and legal routes now
Politicians continue to play into the narrative that they are the ones in the wrong, mislabelling asylum-seekers as ‘illegal’.
Pierre Poilievre: Canada’s next Prime Minister?
His very rise to power was predicated on the anti-vax “Freedom convoy”, but he also has made frequent attacks against the World Economic Forum and their COVID-19 recover plan, dubbed the “Great Reset”, a favourite target of antisemitic conspiracy theorists in Canada
Why austerity isn’t the answer
Hunt can take the opportunity of Halloween to bury the zombie economics of austerity by choosing to tax the rich and set out a plan for the green future of our economy.
The centre cannot hold – What is the Republican Party?
And it looks as though there will be a next time. I think Trump will run, and if/when he does, he will almost certainly be the Republican nominee; frankly he will be quasi-coronated.
Truss’ ‘mini-budget’ is a car crash for young and ordinary people
What I didn’t foresee were the perilous moves and gambles he made to save the richest in our country tens of thousands of pounds and leave everyone else picking up the pieces of a wrecked economy.
A Brit abroad: student reactions to Argentine assassination attempt
"The overwhelming tone on Thursday night was not one of grave solemnity nor political reflection, but of mockery and exasperation at yet another national crisis."
UK Democracy is broken. Here’s how we can fix it.
As a new prime minister enters office after only earning 57% of the Conservative member vote and receiving the lowest vote share of any...
What’s the real deal with Oxford PPE?
Freya Jones interviews three PPE students to find out what the degree is really about.
The slow death of liberty
The problem with all these superficially defendable laws is that they fundamentally change our understanding of what a right is.
