Darnella Frazier captured the footage of George Floyd’s tragic death and shared it on Facebook in May this year. Since then, it’s gone ‘viral’ – receiving over one billion views across different platforms and sparking social reform. Facebook’s ability to…
As the Labour Party’s shiny new leader, Keir Starmer has got an unenviable task at hand. Since their unexpected and fairly disastrous general election loss in December of last year, Labour have undergone extensive soul searching about how and why…
The Black Lives Matter movement has been an element of public consciousness for almost 7 years now, since the acquittal of Trayvon Martin’s killer in July 2013. It has now been 4 weeks since the death of George Floyd and…
Something has changed. The murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis as an event is distinct from its all too common predecessors in that its sheer clear cut brutality has altered the debate from a question of whether to hold the…
From health care to education, devolution has caused Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland to branch away from Westminster and centralised power. Whether powers are too many or too few is debated at length between nations, but the question up for…
It has been three years since the Grenfell Tower fire. 72 people lost their lives and hundreds more were displaced. It’s also over a year since Theresa May, in her resignation speech on the steps of Downing Street, claimed pride…
One month ago, Germany’s parliament passed a law forbidding “gay conversion” therapy for those under 18. As well as punishments for those offering the service to under-eighteens, parents could also be prosecuted if they pressure their children to take part.…
When 19 year old Jessica Breeze stabbed her abusive and controlling father to death back in June, she was charged with his murder. She had stabbed her father in the back with a kitchen knife after he flew into a…
Greater Manchester Police closed down an investigation into a paedophile ring in 2005, despite identifying nearly 100 potential abusers. This shocking fact made regional headlines last week after a review of Operation Augusta, the original investigation, concluded that victims of…