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  • The UK’s 2025 Local Elections – Time To Rethink Devolution?

    Many commentators have dubbed the recent Local Elections in the UK as a watershed moment. Reform UK and Liberal Democrats beat the two traditional main parties, the Labour Party and the Conservatives, to first and second place with both taking control of several county councils and unitary authorities. Meanwhile, of the 6 Mayoral elections, Reform UK took impressive…

    Michael Kane

  • Why Is The UK Government Cutting Welfare 

    The UK Government has recently moved to pursue a series of disability and incapacity benefit cuts as they have look to raise funds for the Exchequer without raising taxes.  Last week, the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, Liz Kendall, started by announcing plans to tighten the eligibility criteria for Personal Independence Payments (PIP) and incapacity benefits linked…

    Michael Kane

  • 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

  • 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