Recently, Extinction Rebellion (XR) has resurfaced in the news as they resume acts of non-violent civil disobedience activism. Seventy-seven people were arrested in the wake of their blockades of national and regional newspaper printing presses earlier this month. While effective…
“Rank hypocrisy” says environmentalist group Global Witness. “Absurd” says Greta Thunberg. “Unacceptable” says the British parliament’s environmental audit committee. “The opposite of sustainable development” says Ban Ki Moon, former Secretary-General of the United Nations. “Transformational for […] economic and social…
Extinction Rebellion’s (XR) latest escapade in blocking Rupert Murdoch owned print sites, responsible for the distribution of major newspapers including The Sun, The Telegraph, The Daily Mail, and The London Evening Standard, is yet another example that illustrates how counterproductive…
‘The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated’. These words were written in a cable by the author Mark Twain after his obituary had been mistakenly published. The idea that the left-right binary no longer exists, like the above anecdote,…
Following the rise of the internet and trend culture, clothing items are now more disposable than ever. We all have clothes we have bought as an impulse buy from H&M or Primark for a festival that is now discarded in…
By using the government’s coronavirus response as a blueprint for tackling the climate crisis the government can instil social and economic change that will cement Britain as a global leader in tackling climate change. Both the coronavirus pandemic and the…
Since the imposition of a national lockdown to slow the spread of the coronavirus, many Londoners are hearing birdsong from their homes for the first time. With the constant background hum of traffic all but silenced, the daily avian chorus…
Nordic countries are frequently hailed as a model political system, their consistent domination of happiness tables is often cited as the reason for the North being the best of what Europe has to offer. However, this picture is different when…
This time last year, Extinction Rebellion (XR) were making huge tides of people start to think about their impact on the environment, as well as realising the impact of climate change. But now, it appears they have hit a standstill…