The release of the UK’s White Paper review of the Gambling Act 2005 has been postponed once again. This is the fourth time that the review has now been postponed, with aides to Boris Johnson now advising that this cannot be released until a new…
“The working class is back…we refuse to be poor anymore” declared Mick Lynch, the General Secretary of the RMT trade union, at the Durham Miner’s Gala. As strikes sweep across the country this summer amidst a cost of living crisis, Lynch is right to assert that the…
After being forced into resignation by a raft of backstabbing ministers and cabinet ministers, it was only a matter of time before the Back Boris brigade imploded with fury. A series of so-called sleaze scandals finally got the better of the man responsible for the…
What is politics, if it is not determining how individuals lead their lives? Constraints from government in legislation frame the decisions people can make. That is a component of living within a society: accepting compromise, the needs of others and negotiating a settlement through democratic…
Callous, cold and cruel. The UK government’s latest refugee policy which will allow for the deportation of asylum seekers to Rwanda, and the High Court’s ruling that this will be permissible, exemplifies the vehement distaste the government has for some of the most vulnerable members…
The events of 5th-7th July 2022 were unprecedented, extraordinary, and frankly, farcical. The 36-hour coup, waged predominantly by those who owe their political livelihoods to Boris Johnson, showed the Conservative Party mercilessly plot and conspire against – and ultimately betray – the electoral dynamo that…
The coming to power of the First Labour Government in January 1924 was an important event in British history, marking the first time that Labour, a democratic socialist party committed to radical social change, attained national office. The product of an inconclusive election the previous…
Since coming to power Boris Johnson and his cabinet have routinely and gleefully threatened to break international law, have ignored parliamentary procedure and Johnson even became the first sitting prime minister to be found guilty of a crime whilst in office. This article provides a…
One major facet of the 2019 general election was how, after many years of making neoliberal economics its raison d’etre, the Conservative Party finally seemed to embrace a post-Thatcherite vision. It campaigned on increased spending and more government intervention in the economy after a decade…
Following 8 months of Partygate headlines, explosive allegations within Prime Minister’s Questions and 69% of the population believing he is doing a bad job, Boris Johnson has wormed his way out of his recent tumultuous troubles. Narrowly escaping the result of a vote of no…
You may have noticed recently that the papers and the pundits have been saying that Britain is heading back to the seventies. Although many today possess a mythologised view of the 1970s – a decade of political division and social uprising – it will always…
No human is perfect. Each of us has habits, attributes and ways of behaving that provide us with limited, if any, benefit. Rather, our indulgences, potentially as an escape from tricky lives, could be an immense detriment to personal, social, professional or health development. Despite…
Northern Ireland is heading towards political limbo. With Sinn Féin becoming the majority party in Northern Ireland after the recent Assembly elections, the Democratic Unionist Party (the second largest party) are currently refusing to nominate a Deputy First Minister. Consequently, an executive cannot form to…
There is a case – made quietly by some, loudly by others, and passionately by a vocal few – for the dissolution of the United Kingdom. Few could deny it. It is among the most pressing problems of our time. Greater calls for independence can…
It has now been several weeks since the local elections. All the results have long come in, but it has only been recently that councils around the country are forming. Nationally, the Conservatives lost over 500 councillors, many of them in their heartlands. The District…
The Prime Minister promised his premiership would usher in a “culture of openness and transparency.” Yet, the actions of the Cabinet Office in blocking the complete disclosure of the late Lord Mountbatten’s diaries would suggest otherwise. With distrust mounting against the Government, it’s time for…
The United Kingdom is a dishonest name for the English Empire. For that is what the United Kingdom is – and has been since the Act of Union. With support for independence at about half in Scotland, growing rapidly in Wales and with the possibility…
Today, many countries around the world are nation-states: sovereign political entities in which one “nation” (a particular ethnic, cultural, or linguistic group) comprises a large majority of a country’s population. In a way, it does make sense; after all, it is easier to communicate with…
Teenage girls have notoriously been discredited, concerns they voice are seen as frivolous, and their interests are side-lined as shallow and meaningless. Whilst, fangirling over the latest Harry Styles song or the Twilight movie saga is continually invalidated socially, when teenage girls voiced their concerns…
Vladimir Putin has once again brought war to Europe, and now it appears that he has also brought the evil of genocide back to the continent. The scale of war crimes committed by Russia is shocking, with reports of the following atrocities occurring across Ukraine…