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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

  • 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

  • Should You Vote? Assessing the Lesser of Two Evils Argument

    We are in the ‘year of elections’, with 64 countries, as well as the European Union, holding elections in 2024, representing 49% of the global population. Sure to dominate the headlines will be the US election in November, and the UK election likely to happen towards the end of the year. The candidates on offer…

    lukepower99

  • Dishonesty and Short-termism in UK Political Culture: Extrinsic or Intrinsic and Inevitable or Fixable

    On the 23rd of October 2023 the House of Commons’ Westminster Hall considered two e-petitions. Both e-petitions roughly contended that it should be made a criminal offence for politicians to mislead the public and/or lie in the House of Commons. This seems pretty hard to enforce but the point stands that this potentially elucidates a rising…

    Michael Kane