Recently, British heritage charity the National Trust has come under intense scrutiny. A few concurrent events have seen the National Trust high up on the news agenda – and not always for positive reasons. A report due to be released shortly is expected to show…
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 movement is. Climate change…
From the England team collectively giving a Nazi salute in 1938, to Celtic fans flying Palestine flags before their match against Israeli team Hapoel Be’er Sheeva in 2016, football has always been an arena of political debate. The foundations of football were originally laid by…
We no longer have a choice. Either we become more eco-friendly, or pay the price. This is especially true when it comes to some of the environmental policies currently in effect, for example the 5p carrier bag charge in shops. As initially controversial laws like…
I don’t believe that governments can successfully replace or provide more positive economic outcomes and freedoms than private enterprise. In short, I’m an advocate of free market economic policies. I’m aware some examples can counter this view, but broadly I believe that the public sector…
With the Home Secretary getting her photo taken at the port of Dover and ramping up the anti-immigrant rhetoric, a topic forgotten for the past few months is being thrust back into the spotlight. As more routine political issues like this move to centre stage,…
Following the Government’s U-turn on the method of generating A-Level and GCSE results earlier in the month, a new diverse and better articulated vocational qualification will be available to select sixth form students returning in September. Recommended by the Wolf Report and dubbed T-Levels, these…
Memory is a peculiar thing. Some moments stick in your mind from years gone by, while others from days ago become immediately cloudy. One particular physical education lesson at school when I was 12 is an example of the former. It may have been best…
There are times when forgiveness appears impossible and the benefit of the doubt has been given one time too many. A willingness to trust the government’s judgement goes too far. Strangely, I speak not even of the coronavirus pandemic. The government’s management of A-level results…
We live in an age where social media is everything. From scrolling through endless amounts of friends’ sunny photos from abroad to tweeting a picture of our avocados on toast, there is no escaping it. Since the boom of the online masses it has become…
Biden won the nomination partly on the perception he would restore normality. But, if he wants to succeed as president, he will have to be a norm-busting Democrat. Despite a slight dip in the polls, Joe Biden – after formally accepting the Democratic Party’s nomination…
The Democrats will unite all voters by the shared disappointment of Trump’s handling of the pandemic.
Bombshells were dropped, tea was spilt and secrets were revealed — the final report on Russia’s involvement in the 2016 and 2020 US elections by the Senate Intelligence Committee contained a lot of damning information. It also confirmed, once and for all, that Russia’s meddling…
To win in November, Joe Biden needs to distill both his agenda and critiques of Trump into a coherent and historically informed message. The institutional and rhetorical disorder in the Trump Campaign, specifically the firing of his campaign manager Brad Parscale and apparent reluctance to…
The Democratic National Convention has just finished this week with speeches delivered by various establishment democrats and previous presidents announcing their full support for Biden and highlighting the danger America faces with Donald Trump in charge. It was also a chance to see the Democratic…
I didn’t need to get out my crystal ball to make the doom and gloom prediction contained in the headline above. Simply observing the current state of the jobs market is enough to know that now, just like in so many times of economic crisis,…
4th August 2020. In a year where exams were cancelled for the first time in history it was the day, just under two weeks ago, when the results for Scottish National 5, higher and advanced higher exams were published. The clear pattern in the results…
It almost seems trendy to dislike the BBC nowadays. At times, I feel as though I am the only one left in the country who still loves it and believes that society in the UK would be worse off without them informing, educating and entertaining…
Governments across the UK have been slated for the way in which results were calculated for students taking Highers in Scotland and A Levels in England and Wales. Yes, some aspects of issuing grades to students could have been done better, but overall the government…
Between April and June, the UK economy reeled from its biggest slump on record, amidst the economic repercussions from Covid-19. Over a decade on from the financial crash of 2008, Britain is now set to enter a second unprecedented recession of a generation. The Chancellor,…