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  • The UK’s Racist Riots Of Summer 2024 – Call It What It Is 

    The UK has been gripped over the last week by increasing unrest following the tragic murder of three children in Southport last week. Yet, as usually goes with civil disobedience and the far-right in the UK, the events that ‘stipulate’ the direct action are often so far removed.  In that sense, even describing the increasing…

    Michael Kane

  • Votes At 16: Unnecessary And Illogical?

    Keir Starmer’s Labour party has been derided by some for its lack of ambition when it comes to delivering social and economic change; while some have doubted this, it is harder to question their lack of ambition when it comes to altering the UK’s constitutional settlement.  Their manifesto specifically details that they will: remove all hereditary peers from the House of Lords; implement…

    Michael Kane

  • Should We Rethink Our Relationship With Voting? None Of The Above Voting: Apathy And Autonomy

    The United Kingdom recently stepped into it’s 4th General Election Campaign in nearly 10 years as Prime Minister Rishi Sunak shockingly took the UK to the polls. Nonetheless, the issue that pervades this piece is not the rigmarothic and stale party-political conversations that may dominate media discussion of the election: whether Sunak should have called the…

    Michael Kane

  • Scotland’s New Hate Crime And Public Order Act: Moral Advancement Captured By Whataboutery?

    A few weeks ago, Harry Potter novelist JK Rowling challenged Police Scotland to arrest her. Your eyes did not deceive you: Britain’s once favourite young adult fiction writer challenged the authorities to put her in handcuffs in a dramatic shift for the former world’s highest paid author. For those not aware, Rowling’s challenge was a tongue in…

    Michael Kane

  • The UK’s Proposed Independent Football Regulator: The Gaps and The Absence of Moral Reckoning

    21 years ago, Leeds United Chairman Paul Ridsdale famously admitted that Leeds should not have spent so much while stressing that they lived the dream regardless. The dream in question: to take one of England’s historic football clubs to the semi-finals of the then UEFA Champions League. Two decades on from that very press conference, in which…

    Michael Kane