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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

  • 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

  • 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…

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