ADVERTISEMENT Moved by the ongoing refugee crisis caused by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, David Palk, from the UK travelled to Poland to do what he could to help support work with refugees. He is currently in Lublin, a beautiful city with an interesting and sometimes tragic past. In Lublin, David,Continue Reading
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ADVERTISEMENT Hunter Harris, University of Oxford The revelation that Chancellor Rishi Sunak’s wife Akshata Murty claimed non-dom status in the UK for years has drawn renewed attention to an imperialist policy that still holds today. Non-doms may live in the UK, but are considered by the tax authorities to beContinue Reading
ADVERTISEMENT Looking towards the next General Election, many political pundits have floated the idea of a progressive alliance between Labour, Liberal Democrats and the Green Party. This idea is backed up by many within the aforementioned parties. They believe that their shared views on electoral reform, the environment and, ofContinue Reading
ADVERTISEMENT There are two books out that make a lot of sense of the world as it is; the first is the very recently released ‘Fake History’ (Wellbeck Publishing), by political journalist Otto English (the pen name of Andrew Scott), one of the heroes in the Brexit debacle not soContinue Reading
ADVERTISEMENT I’ve heard people describing Johnson’s role in Northern Ireland today as being an “honest broker” between the parties. I’ve carried my Tricolour with me since the first time I went to SODEM, and since October 2016 at demonstrations in Newcastle, Edinburgh, Balmoral, Liverpool, Manchester, Brussels and many places inContinue Reading
ADVERTISEMENT Culture and ethnic identity are taken seriously, not only by Ukrainians themselves but also by heritage organisations like UNESCO under its Convention for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage, heritage which is passed down by generations and provides people with a sense of identity. In December 2021, a specialContinue Reading
ADVERTISEMENT Let’s send them to Rwanda! Let’s get them off our hands. They’re very good with foreigners In far off foreign lands. You criticise my attitude You call it “cavalier” But surely you don’t want All these foreigners coming here? I’m British as a bulldog I’m as British as canContinue Reading
ADVERTISEMENT There once was an Irish place which donated the cheek from its face to a poetic formation which soon bored the nation to the extent that everyone went back to writing freeform verse, except when it rhymed, which was even worse. Harry GallagherContinue Reading
ADVERTISEMENT Labour leader Keir Starmer insists that he did not break lockdown rules after being photographed drinking a beer and eating food during the local election campaign of April 2021. So confident is he that he didn’t, he has pledged to step down if he is fined by the policeContinue Reading
