‘We’ve just got to push the reset button’: Lord Peter Mandelson on Labour, Europe and Modern Communications
“It’s clear that Governments need to govern, that people want them to govern, and that they need to make these important decisions.” – In Conversation with George Monbiot
Comment·1st March 2023Andrew Tate: The Mouthpiece of Misogyny Tara Earley t/w: mentions of rape and sexual assault It’s been a blissful few weeks since the name Andrew Tate has graced...Read More
Comment·11th February 2023Balloongate, Box Office Drama Thomas Cowan Picture the scene. It’s early 2019. You’re settling into your cinema seat, popcorn in hand (Sweet and salty, because you’re...Read More
Green·28th January 2023Climate anxiety: a narrative in need of change Anna Bartlett In contrast to the stereotype of the spirited young student, brandishing placards on the streets of university towns, British students...Read More
Comment·19th January 2023Excuse Me Sir, Where Can I Find Global Britain? Ali Khosravi On the 14th of January 2023, a British citizen who had been imprisoned on trumped-up spying charges in Iran since...Read More
Comment·15th December 2022Executing protesters: How the Iranian dictatorship took crackdown to a new level Ali Khosravi On Thursday 8th December, the Iranian authorities confirmed the execution of one of the arrested protesters which they had charged...Read More
Comment·19th November 2022Brewdog with the perfect brew at Qatar 2022 Matthew Holland What attracted me to buying my first ever Brewdog beer (a pint of Punk IPA), was the fact that their...Read More
Comment·27th October 2022Despite the crackdown, the Iranian protesters give me hope Ali Khosravi When the English philosopher, John Gray, went on BBC Radio Four’s Desert Island Discs to talk about his life and...Read More
International Issues·20th August 2022Did Putin Save the Liberal World Order? Ali Khosravi If you were a liberal thinking about the ‘liberal world order’ back in 2019, you could have been forgiven for...Read More
Comment·28th July 2022Musk, money, and a monopoly on influence Tom Elliott On Wednesday 20th July, Tesla released its surprisingly good second quarter results, managing to beat expectations on earnings per share...Read More
Comment·1st June 2022Disunited States – Why gun control is unthinkable in the US Matthew Holland c/w: school shootings, gun violence, suicide How many readers remember the 2018 Marjory Stoneman Douglas Shootings and the subsequent...Read More
Green·11th February 2023We are all Climate Deniers: What if we weren’t? Anna Bartlett When the UN says 1.7⁰C of warming equals extreme food shortages for at least half of the world’s population in...Read More
Science and Technology·31st January 2023Should we really ‘Learn to Live’ with Long Covid? Archuna Russell T Davies seems to have a penchant for all things apocalyptic. And sometimes, it feels like I’ve woken up...Read More
Features·27th January 2023Holocaust Memorial Day: what the lives of the ordinary people of Nazi Germany tell us about being an ordinary person today Anna Ashkinazi Every year on Holocaust Memorial Day, I think one day a year could never be enough to say everything that...Read More
Comment·15th January 2023Fifteenth Time Lucky Johan Orly The only winner from Kevin McCarthy’s pyrrhic victory is extremism in American politics. Expect a Republican conference – and a...Read More
Comment·23rd November 2022The Role of Sports in Iran’s Protests Anna Lee Since the murder of Mahsa Amini on the 13th of September, 2022, there have been nonstop protests and demonstrations across...Read More
Comment·8th November 2022Why COP27’s Climate Finance Discussions Must Prioritize Africa Anna Lee The COP27 summit officially commenced this Sunday, marking the 30th anniversary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change....Read More
Features·20th October 2022Narva: Europe’s most precarious city? Patrick Groves When Vladimir Putin’s ‘special military operation’ began, and the long amassed forces on the Ukrainian border were finally mobilised, studying...Read More
Comment·18th August 2022In Defence of Olaf Scholz Matthew Holland The 2021 German Federal Elections produced a unique situation for post-war German politics: the lowest percentage for the largest party...Read More
International Issues·30th June 2022Blowing Up Ukraine by Yuri Felshtinsky and Michael Stanchev review: an urgent warning for us all Yii-Jen Deng We are not yet afraid, but this book speaks of war. Flinging before us a panoramic view of Ukraine and...Read More