The annual discourse of International Men’s Day once again illuminated us on November 19th with its heady mix of sexism and bad-faith politics. It’s a meme rather than a day of dutiful political activism. You only need to glance at…

Labour’s MP for Canterbury, Rosie Duffield, locked her Twitter account on October 15 2020, in response to the backlash she began to receive after a spat with LGBT+ site PinkNews. The site criticised the elected official over comments made concerning…

This article is a response to our ‘Making History’ campaign for Black History Month. If you would also like to submit a piece for this, please get in touch at editor@bbench.co.uk. Former Shadow Home Secretary Diane Abbott is someone who…

‘The future for a more liberal Ireland lay with the advanced thinkers of the north’, wrote Marianne Elliot, by way of describing the idealism of Wolfe Tone. That sentiment was then embodied more than a century after Tone’s death in…