The United Kingdom, as a divorcee of the European Union, faces a multitude of challenges to confront – both domestically and internationally. The last half-decade has, all thing considered, been a show of reputational fatigue. Plagued by internal insecurity about…
When I caught myself reminiscing about the past year, my immediate thoughts were primarily self-centred. Upon reflection, I felt a degree of shame. Why hadn’t I been more compassionate about the positions of everyone else? Empowered by frustrated aspiration, the…
When summer returns to Britain this year, there is concerted hope that a return to normality will bring with it a period of reconciliation and progress, no matter how abstract it may seem now. Yet, hidden among the toppled rubble…
There is something remarkably bewildering about living through a pandemic, which, at its very heart, encompasses a jarring juxtaposition of dichotomous realities too facile to formulate. Yet, it is through one profound simplicity, the line between life and death, that…
The world has collectively taken a breath of fresh air. After a staggered election week, the American electorate has ejected – and elected – a president. Yet, this vote, which saw the most voted for two candidates in US history,…
“Overbroad generalisations will not suffice to deny women whose talent and capacity place them outside the average description,” Ruth Bader Ginsburg wrote, when declaring that the Virginia Military Institute could no longer prohibit women from its ranks. Ginsburg, the second…