Still Making History: Why America’s Political Firsts Matter
Hayden discusses the ongoing U.S. midterm elections and what the results mean for everyday citizens in the UK.
Everyday Politics
The Right to Protest: A Right Only When it’s Convenient?
Hayden explores how the right to protest is seen in the modern day.
“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,…