The ongoing power and hegemony of the US…
US hegemonic power is increasingly debated in terms of whether it is still strong or whether it is in a state of decline with the rise of developing countries, the underlying weakness of the dollar and...
View ArticleMy complaint regarding the misleading South Yorkshire PCC postal vote...
When trying to complete my ballot for the upcoming South Yorkshire PCC election on the 30th of October, I had a moment of panic thinking that I HAD to have a second choice. Given my options for this...
View ArticleWho I’m voting for: people like me helped let the Tories in after the 2010...
5 years ago, I was a vocal Liberal Democrat supporter and member and even managed to convince people around me generally apathetic and uninterested in politics to vote for the LibDems in the General...
View ArticleLessons from my ACL recovery…
In October 2016, after a particularly physical 11-a-side game, I found myself unable to kick a ball in training, as every time I kicked it it felt like my leg was going to rip in two! This followed...
View ArticleThe Contradiction of Mistakes in Professional Football…
Mistakes are part of what makes us human. We all make mistakes. Mistakes can make us much stronger, it can change who we are and what we think, it can create self-confidence and empower as we take...
View ArticleThatcher ‘tribute’: on what she did, believed, and her effect today…
Margaret Thatcher rose to power in the context of a broken down Bretton Woods System, a system that formed after the Second World War in attempts to control the speculative financial flows and an...
View ArticleBuying honey products funds exploitation and environmental problems…
“We won it for the bees“, Avaaz announced, when Europe banned pesticides. So what’s my problem with this you may ask. Well, as a vegan and related anti-capitalist, banning pesticides misses the...
View ArticleHighlighting misconceptions with the EU In-Out Debate…
Cameron has finally given into the demands from his backbenchers and the growth of UKIP alongside feeding Euroscepticism ignorance within the UK by promising an in-out European referendum if the Tories...
View ArticleThe Radical Potential of Social Construction
Studying Sociology at University is where I learnt about the importance of social construction and deconstruction for understanding how society works. Social construction, as defined by the Sociology...
View ArticleReading the Riots Conference Review…
It was only last week that Iain Duncan Smith was yet again forming a correlation, not causation, with the occurrence of the riots. This time, Smith argued that X-Factor was partly the cause of the...
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