Julia Farrington The government has suspended its promised Independent Review of Prevent midway through its gathering of evidence. It has so [...]
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Viewpoints on topics in the news.
Viewpoint: The Left must stop Whitewashing the NHS
Alfie Hancox It is not just Conservative politicians who should be criticised for the NHS whitewash. Labour’s post-war promise of universal [...]
Read moreVIEWPOINT: Cruelty As Policy, Humanitarian Alternatives
Stuart Rees Cruelty refers to wanton and unnecessary infliction of suffering without regard to what is right, just or humane. Around [...]
Read moreVIEWPOINT: Poetry Against ‘Oh, Canada!’ Racism
Tania Maki Chahal The summer of 2017 was particularly hostile to Indigenous people in Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada, a settler city [...]
Read moreVIEWPOINT: Biofuels: Another Story of Neo-Colonialism
Paula Reisdorf Over the past decade, large swathes of land in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) have been grabbed by European multinational companies, [...]
Read moreVIEWPOINT: If Representations of Endometriosis Are Not Intersectional, They are Damaging and Inaccurate
Nikita Aashi Chadha Representations of endometriosis within the media, society and even decision-making rooms within Parliament, unsettles me as a working [...]
Read moreViewpoint: ‘White nation’ conservatism
John Holmwood Nick Timothy, the former advisor to Theresa May when she was Minister at the Home Office and then Prime [...]
Read moreVIEWPOINT: Queering urban justice – From transitional objects to intergenerational care
Image Credit: A still from the short film Marvellous Grounds (directed by Min Sook Lee, featuring ILL NANA/DiverCity Dance Company). Jin [...]
Read moreVIEWPOINT: China, ‘the sick man of Asia’ 2.0 – the securitization of Coronavirus
Ferran Perez Mena At the end of the 19th century, the imperialist western powers, during their “civilizing” mission of plundering in [...]
Read moreVIEWPOINT: Rights, Policies and Politics for Gender Justice in an Unjust World: Researching and Resisting
Paula Campos Pinto In current times, the, often astonished, world is witnessing the rise of political regimes shaped by neoliberalism, neo-conservatism, [...]
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