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Thursday, 29 August 2024

An open letter to the UK's climate political prisoners

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The following is a joint email I wrote to all of the UK's current political prisoners who have been jailed due to their climate activism...
Monday, 26 August 2024

The perpetual helplessness of politicians

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' If I spend my life on the losing side, you can lay me down knowing that I tried ' Grace Petrie  The Prime Minister Keir Starmer  w...
Saturday, 17 August 2024

The Imane Khelif case shows how prejudice harms everyone

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 For the last few weeks, the Algerian boxer Imane Khelif has been in the news frequently. Her success at the 2024 Olympics, winning a gold m...
Wednesday, 14 August 2024

The mental gymnastics at the heart of the Zionist movement

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 Earlier this year, at a screening of the film Israelism  hosted by my local Palestine society, I asked the question, 'Is it possible to...
Sunday, 11 August 2024

Do all lives still matter?

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 The phrase 'All Lives Matter' was used frequently in the latter part of the 2010s decade in response to the Black Lives Matter prot...
Friday, 2 August 2024

The Huw Edwards debacle only serves to expose more serious problems with celebrity culture

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This blog was inspired by a headline I saw today regarding the 2006 Doctor Who  episode 'Fear Her' being pulled from iPlayer. The he...
Tuesday, 30 July 2024

Would the Government find the money if a bank collapsed tomorrow?

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 The title of this blog was borrowed from Prem Sikka , a Labour peer in the House of Lords who I've only just heard of, but merely scrol...