Tag: UK Politics
Posts of Tag: UK Politics
Posts of Tag: UK Politics
Labour’s popularity is all too fragile
Photo: Jonathan Brady/PA Since they occurred, I’ve spent a great deal of time thinking about the two by-elections in North Shropshire and Old Bexley & Sidcup, both with their own implications on UK Electorate....Learn MoreNewsPoliticsUK PoliticsConservativesBoris JohnsonLabour PartyExactly How Bad Would a No-Deal Brexit Be?
Very, is the short answer. Unsplash | Kristina G They say the only things certain in life are death, taxes, and a never-ending Brexit. The negotiations, re-negotiations, and repeated postponements of Brexit ...Learn MoreNewsPoliticsBrexitUKUK PoliticsNo Deal BrexitShould Schools Teach LGBT Tolerance?
In the UK, there is an ongoing debate as to whether schools should teach lessons on LGBT rights. In Birmingham, this debate recently came to a head with Parkland Community School announcing that it has suspende...Learn MoreNewsSocietyPhilosophyEducationLGBTQUK Politics“Brexit: A threat or an opportunity for UK lawyers and legal London?”
In November 2018, I wrote a piece for a competition in the Times newspaper. The title for submission was “Brexit: A threat or an opportunity for UK lawyers and legal London?”. I did not win, but I enjoyed the p...Learn MoreNewsLondonLawBrexitUK PoliticsA Wilderness Betrayed — Part 2
The only Variant of Concern is GDP… Well that was a disappointment. Even in the context of a year of bad news for the travel industry last week’s grand ‘review’ (slowly leaked over the course of the day to so...Learn MoreNewsCovid 19TravelWildlife ConservationUK PoliticsKenyaIf you do what you did, you get ….
If you do what you did, you get …. … what you got. This is a well-known quote. The intention is to let you see that you need to do something different in order to get a different result. The bushfires in Aus...Learn MoreNewsChangeTransformationSkillsUK PoliticsUniquenessThe British Paradigm Shift?
In the UK, as in many Western Democracies, institutional trust has collapsed over recent decades. Whether it be the press, banks, the government, the EU, citizens have lost faith in many elements of British soc...Learn MoreNewsPoliticsUKUK PoliticsPolitical PartiesCommunitarianismWhy I’m not a Unionist
Having lived 18 of the last 21 years of my life in Scotland, I am most certainly Scottish. Having lived 3 years in England (and with plans to return shortly) and with a Welsh father who raised me on tales of Gl...Learn MoreNewsPoliticsScotlandUK PoliticsIndependenceThe State of Hate in the UK — December 2021
In the week before Christmas 2021, former police officer Harry Miller won a three-year legal struggle at the Court of Appeal, arguing against the recording by police of nebulous ‘non-crime hate incidents’, whic...Learn MoreNewsRacismPoliceUK PoliticsHate CrimesAnti SemitismPedophrasty, Bigoteering, and Other Modern Scams
Pedophrasty, Bigoteering, and Other Modern Scams Clearing the discourse of abuses and abusers. The more you institutionalize rules of ethical behavior that should be voluntary (say, anti-racism, anti-sexism), ...Learn MoreNewsPhilosophyPoliticsUK PoliticsBlack SwanVirtue Signalling