Science and politics are often viewed as being leagues apart. Politics is fallible and led by an agenda, while science, on the other hand, is regarded as being free from any outside influence. However, science, like politics, is also flawed…
Over the past few months, key workers have been applauded, cheered and revered as heroes. They have kept the country ticking over during the coronavirus crisis. By differentiating minimum wages between industries, key workers’ could receive the pay rise they…
Recent headlines warning that nurseries face ‘mass closures’ as a result of the coronavirus pandemic should be a cause for concern for society at large. Regardless of whether an individual has nursery-age children, the current existential threat to the early-years…
Language is hugely important. Politicians know this, it is why spin doctors are kept in the job. But the earthquake election of Trump in America and the devastating loss for Labour in Britain have shown a dramatic change in the…
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…
Boris bounced into Downing Street in December raring to get started on his plan for his vision of post-Brexit Britain. Yet, something called the coronavirus took his attention away from his plans more than he might have expected. As lockdown…
The Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement is currently dominating headlines and social media feeds following the murder of George Floyd at the hands of a policeman in the USA. Systemic racism is not a solely American problem and it is…
This article has been written by Maddie Grounds who is a specialist content writer andcorrespondent for the Immigration Advice Service; an organisation of UK immigrationlawyers. For the majority of the British public, leading a new life of normality thankfully no…
The Canadian-American radical feminist and polemicist, Shulamith Firestone, had this to say about marriage: ‘under Roman law [man] was invested with the rights of life and death over them all; famulus means domestic slave, and familia is the total number…
When the government decided it would be Michael Gove who would announce that it was safe for teachers to return to the classroom, this was just another insult to a profession which has spent ten years being attacked by the…