In this political pandemonium created by Britain’s vote to exit the EU where the value of our currency is dropping faster than the Labour shadow cabinet and angry posts litter your social media feeds, it seems that one very important area of impact is being overlooked: Culture.
(Editor: I decided a bit of satire was in order. With Britain leaving the EU, and Game of Thrones leaving our screens for a year, the time was ripe.) Britain has voted to leave the EU, Brexit has come, and in the wake of this many have been speculating what future we might expect. Amid…
(Editor: An impassioned polemic by our writer Jake Daniels, delivering the rage many have felt in the past few days.) To the political class, You did this. All of you. All the politicians and members of parliament in your little partisan circles. It feels like a member of the family has died; the youth of…
The world’s artists express their sympathies for Paris. Why are we debating artistry credits?
Bahar Mustafa has been charged over her tweet concerning the killing of white men. Turns out free speech has it’s limits under English law, precisely the stance that she really supports: there are some things you should not be allowed to say. While as a white man I’m not a massive fan of her statement…
Two days ago at 11:00pm a deadline for Greece to repay €1.8bn to the IMF came, and it swiftly passed. Greece became the first developed country to ever default on the repayment of major debts. Probably not the sort of milestone that they aspired towards, but it is the one that they have achieved. This…
(Editor: A month and three days after our last sign of life, after exams, and a series of pitiless whippings, The Liberal Cynics return. I leave you now to the skill of Jake Scott.) On the 31st of October, 2014, Ed Miliband revived an old political question that had been bubbling beneath the surface of…
As per usual, revision for my law degree examinations has been disrupted by the only thing that has the power to distract me from law… more law. Yes, as many of you will probably have seen brandished across social media as a “look what you have done to us” statement to those who voted Tory,…
When drafting this I had an unanticipated tangent emerge – I was going to use the Cheltenham result to discuss the Lib Dem collapse and the very blue map of the south west. However, for all the revelry I can understandably take part in – the first Tory majority since ’92, beat the polls by…
(Editor – With Britain reeling from the general election, we look again at the creeping tide that is American electioneering.) In part two of my attempted coverage of the United States Presidential Race I will once again introduce another new set of candidates who have recently announced their official candidacy. Bernie Sanders (Democrat) At last…
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