• 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…


  • 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…