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  • Labour’s Hollow Victory And Overcoming The Lesser Of Two Evils

    The UK General Election took place this summer, with Labour celebrating a historic landslide victory, achieving the largest majority in the House of Commons since Tony Blair’s famous victory in 1997. However, the election was historic for another reason; the turnout of all voting-age adults in the UK was only 52%, which is the lowest since…

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  • Should We Reconsider Our Payments To Streaming Sites? Libraries, Music, Film, Television and Oasis

    If there was an age of cinema and an age of live music, then it’s arguable that we are now in the age of streaming. You might be reading this blog while listening to music on Spotify, Apple Music or Tidal. Afterwards, you may hop onto your chosen streaming site. We all consume television, film…

    Michael Kane

  • 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