The Right to Protest: A Right Only When it’s Convenient?
Hayden explores how the right to protest is seen in the modern day.
Everyday Politics
“Not Everything Is Political” and the Quiet Cost of Switching Off
Hayden explores how “not everything is political” became a modern coping mechanism, and how apathy protects the status quo.
Mandelson is out- who’s next on the files?
Rosie discusses the disparity between the impact of the Epstein files release in the UK and the US.
Politics by Proxy: What We Lose When Short Form Content Does Our Thinking for Us
Hayden explores how short-form explainers reshape political understanding, weaken our critical thinking and make misinformation harder to spot.
Lip-Syncs, Likes and Labour: Politics in the Age of TikTok
Hayden discusses the rise of TikTok's role in politics.
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…
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…
Parasociality, Gen Z and the Plight of Luigi Mangione
‘Straight up GILF – Guy I’d Like to Free… and F***.’ This comment taken from Reddit’s r/popculture, boasting a wealth of upvotes and a wealth of replies in similar vein,…
Why the UK can’t stay complacent: the threat from across the pond
Image: totalnews.com It’s been a rough few weeks for Prime Minister Keir Starmer, regarding the lurking controversy of the ‘grooming gangs scandal’, a point of contention that has even more…