NUS: Not Fit For Purpose?
The National Union of Students is failing those whom it claims to represent, and is an organisation riven with bigotry and hypocrisy. It needs wholesale reform to be worth supporting, says Antony Tucker. The...
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Rights in America: Bathroom Battles
America can claim it has paved the way for equality all it likes, but the legal situation for LGBT rights in the US looks abysmal. When President Obama leaves the White House this November,...
Make PSHE Progressive
From teaching about “sexting” to consent, campaigns for changes to the UK’s PSHE curriculum have been gaining more momentum over the last few years. Personal, social, health and economic education (PSHE) has been a...
Our future Europe must not be one of splendid isolation
The EU is full of its problems. Let’s stay in so we can solve them. “Whoever speaks of Europe is wrong: it is a geographical expression.” So remarked the first Chancellor of Germany, Otto von...
I support Brexit because I’m left-wing, not in spite of it
Eurosceptics are perceived as being right-wing Conservative or Ukip supporters. Sam Glover bucks the trend. I’m not supposed to be a eurosceptic. As a nineteen-year-old, Labour-supporting Londoner, I am the “In” campaign’s core demographic;...
Period Politics
What would life be like without a toilet? 2.5 billion people know only too well. Imagine if you did not have access to such a variety of sanitary products. For too many this is...
The Voters Who Shouldn’t Vote
Attempts to extend the vote to 16-year-olds for the EU referendum were defeated. But what about a maximum voting age? In less than four months, every voter in the UK will have a voice...
Equality Is Not Optional
The rising use of the referendum to decide on equaliy issues is profoundly wrong, and undermines the idea of fundamental rights – so says Antony Tucker In 2015 the Republic of Ireland and Slovenia...
The Greatest Minority of All
Despite being just as important as men, there are still economic and social divides which result in gender inequality in the UK. Modern society is built upon foundations of free will and freedom of...
Homelessness: The Biggest Scandal in Our ‘Big Society’
Homelessness: the problem right in front of us which so many do not see. It’s time we paid attention to it, says Steve Miller. With all the recent media furore surrounding the refugee crisis,...
Wrong on Rights
The European Committee on Social Rights’ verdict on children’s paper rounds is laughable, and will only distract us from tackling more serious human rights issues. It has become a cliché to moan about absurd...
Mind the Gap
Women and men work equal hours, supposedly for equal pay. So why does there continue to be a gap between their wages? Men currently earn, according to the Independent, 23 per cent more than...
Death of the Orator
Who springs to mind as a great orator? Cicero, Churchill, Martin Luther King Jr. Nowadays? Good question. What makes a good orator? The greats we think of, from Cicero to Martin Luther King Jr,...
Rhodes Must Stand
The campaign to remove Cecil Rhodes’ statue from Oriel College, Oxford is a hollow display of moral vanity. It must stay. I was extremely disheartened last week upon reading that over a third of...
The Week of the “Thought Police”
More than half a million people have now signed a petition and today, MPs will debate whether Donald Trump should be banned from the UK. That would be the wrong thing to do. Have...
The Rhode to Racial Justice
The “Rhodes Must Fall” movement is driven by the desire to change Oxford’s attitude to race. In a university where privilege still has a part to play, the statue of Cecil Rhodes needs to...
Ignorance Isn’t Bliss
We’ve become desensitised to war – and frightened of it. Katy Bennett argues that this is a dangerous combination. Britain has almost been constantly at war for the past 100 years, but since World...
They ain’t no Muslims, bruv
After the recent Leytonstone Station terrorist attacks, the hashtag #YouAintNoMuslimBruv began trending on Twitter. If there’s one thing that shows we cannot blame everyday Muslims for so-called Islamic State, it’s this. Islam has nothing...
Smash The Press
The mainstream media is not only irrelevant to modern society, it is actively dangerous. The mainstream media has, for a long time, been of great benefit to society. However in recent years this reporting...
Reclaiming Liberalism
If the Liberal Democrats want to re-establish themselves as a strong voice in Parliament, they must open the Orange Book once more. Coalitions and splits in and across major political parties have never been...
