The election is over and the dust has not yet settled on one of the most turbulent periods in British democratic history. In the General Election, the EU Referendum and the Snap Election we have all ...
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The recent protests by white supremacists and openly racist members of the far Right of America in Charlottesville Virginia are an aberration on civil society, interpersonal cooperation and the idea ...
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The academic Corey Robin in his book, The Reactionary Mind, argues that ‘the right is fundamentally inspired by hostility to emancipating the lower orders’ and that there is an ‘impulse to ...
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The pressure is growing to force President Trump to turn over his tax returns. The other day, for example, 200 Congressmen filed a suit in federal court, arguing that voters and lawmakers have a ...
Read more: Did Trump Get a Big Tax Refund After 2005?
In the past week tensions have ramped up between the USA and North Korea. Donald Trump is promising ‘fire and fury’ and boasting about his nuclear arsenal and North Korea is making explicit ...
Read more: How worried should we be about North Korea?
The Queen's Speech is set to be delayed until next Monday. It is believed that the Conservatives are having trouble putting together the speech, especially while talks with the DUP are yet to be ...
Read more: Queen's Speech delayed, as Tories 'prune' manifesto
US President Donald Trump sparked outrage yesterday when he condemned 'many sides' for the violence in Charlottesville. The White House has since tried to clarify these comments.
When asked ...
Fake Morality is Deceiving the Public
During last year’s US Presidential election, Buzzfeed reported on sexual allegations about Donald Trump that they were unable to confirm, yet they published ...
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The EU’s chief negotiator Michel Barnier has urged the UK to provide more clarity over the UK’s financial contribution to the EU after Brexit, on citizen’s rights, on the Good Friday Agreement ...
Read more: No trade deal before financial settlement - Barnier
What’s right is right, what’s wrong is wrong. It should be that straight forward shouldn’t it? In the recent televised grilling of Jeremy Corbyn and Theresa May both leaders were presented with ...
Read more: The Politics of Morality
Over the last few elections, green policy has become a serious election issue. What was once a niche concern confined to a small base of largely left wing ecologists is now a popular issue across the ...
Read more: Green policies: How do the parties compare?
Encryption backdoors, breaking WhatsApp and iMessage's security to let the government stop Bad Things, sounds like a reasonable idea. The British government secured the powers to do this and, ...
Read more: Why The Government Shouldn't Break WhatsApp
A comparison of recent events in the Middle East with popular revolutions that occurred in Eastern Europe in 1989-1990 reveals a variety of illuminating parallels. The fall of oppressive regimes ...
Read more: Iran's Revolution In Waiting
The BBC leader’s debate was terrible. Too many leaders on stage, too few of them good. In between the incoherent shouting, there were a handful of good points being made. Unfortunately, they were ...
Read more: The second leaders' debate
A UK election is almost unique. We have a complex and unique system, strict rules and an odd way of campaigning. If you've never experienced a UK election, this could all get a bit confusing. That's ...
Read more: A quick guide to UK elections
At the end of election night, the prospect of a DUP-Tory coalition provoked a lot of dread. The DUP was UKIP before UKIP, and has very hard lines – to put it diplomatically – on many social ...
Read more: Once dreaded, the Tory-DUP deal is broadly good
The Conservatives and the DUP have finally stuck a deal that will allow the Conservatives to continue to rule as a minority government.
It is understood that negotiations focussed on ...
Read more: Tories and DUP agree confidence and supply deal
Most elections are in some way disappointing. One of the parties will inevitably run a terrible campaign, a brilliant politician will fail to get the message out, or the voters will punish someone ...
Read more: The most disappointing election in a generation