Reading 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...
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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Highlighting 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...
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Buying 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...
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Thatcher ‘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...
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The 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...
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2018 Men’s World Cup: Collectivism, Nationalism, Patriotism and Sexism
That was a truly gripping men’s World Cup. I enjoyed watching all the games I could – work depending – and the dramas that unfolded as the weeks went on. The opportunity to watch the best professional...
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Lessons 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...
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#Calais, ethics and hope over fear and hate…
Bring in the sniffer dogs and army, fund more fences, use degrading language (e.g. swamped) are all things either being suggested or being done to ‘deal’ with the so-called Calais ‘migrant crisis’...
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My thoughts on the Women’s World Cup #FIFAWWC
The Women’s World Cup is now over. What a tournament that was. Myself and Jay Baker tried to watch pretty much every game and thoroughly enjoyed the experience (despite the tiring days following!)....
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Who 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...
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My 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...
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The reinvention of the past; what the Tories and the media don’t tell you…
“Who controls the past controls the future; who controls the present controls the past” – Orwell, 1984. Something of a political master-class has happened under this government, with the seeds clearly...
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The rise of self-employment and the so-called economic recovery…
More and more the government is trying to get the narrative to switch so that people think that they have got the economy working again. One of the things they are using to claim this is pointing to...
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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...
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Elections: the real political-economic problems continue to be ignored #Vote...
With the rise of UKIP, more ideologically, with the help of the media, than statistically – given that UKIP’s projected national vote share figure of 17% is lower than the 23% it got in council...
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Problems with the argument that “the economy is growing again”…
There has been a lot of noise from the government that they have rescued us, that we are now back to ‘growing’ as an economy but we shouldn’t mess with their plan because hey, things are working. There...
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The value of money and the neoliberal economic system…
Since 1971, after the ‘Nixon Shock’, money has become increasingly worthless, intrinsically, but whilst it does not mean anything per se it has a lot of influence, worth and power over people’s lives,...
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The Debt Ceiling and Political Grandstanding
There is a lot of panic regarding the U.S’s debt ceiling, which has existed since 1917. But why? In a country that relies on debt, consumption and cheap and easy access to credit, why is it so...
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