Author Archives: Rosie Greenwood

Policing Politics: current discourses on ‘intellectualism’

Today, I want to discuss the normalisation of the objectification of the fetishization of the romanticisation of the problems with No, I’m kidding. But the initial reading of that opener was plausible…and all too common in the current content landscape. Opening my YouTube recommendations page feels like a minefield of buzzwords on the same topics […]

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Why English ‘patriotism’ no longer exists

As many of my peers do, I remember the 2012 London Olympics vividly. I’m still unsure of why it had such a profound impact on me at the time, but I was enamoured by it. The colour, the vivacity, the unity, the pride of its location; the flag held high, the Union Jack plastered as […]

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