With the ongoing Conservative leadership election to replace Boris Johnson, the concept of culture war has often come up. Most recently, Rishi Sunak has turned to these “culture war issues” by bemoaning “anti-British propaganda in schools” and declaring that “we can’t even use words like ‘man’, ‘woman’ or ‘mother’ without…

I wanted to write this blogpost about the new book Abolition. Feminism. Now. By Angela Davis, Gina Dent, Erica Meiners and Beth Richie. I have just finished reading the book and can say it is a fascinating genealogy and argument for the indivisibility of feminism and abolition. The main argument…

With the war in Ukraine, the military occupation of the West Bank in Palestine by Israeli security forces, and their killings of civilians has faded from the news. Indeed, coverage of Israeli human rights abuses is certainly sparse in Western media, in large part because the governments of the UK…

The idea for this post emerged out of researching how universities have been transformed into businesses, but I wanted to focus on other areas for this post. No one is neutral is about understanding that neutrality itself is a political statement. To be neutral is to be political often with…

It is hard to believe, but as I write this, I have finished all taught classes for my masters at LSE. The masters has gone by so quickly (it is technically a year but there are only 20 weeks of teaching), and now the question of what to do next…

While much of the current news is focused on the war in Ukraine (and of course it is important to oppose Putin’s imperialism), I want to do a blogpost on education policy and how it is being used to further the interests of the Right and white supremacists. In a…

There is an enormous amount of discourse around climate change and solutions to the crisis. One of these so-called solutions is on addressing global population growth. I remember when I attended the public green zone of COP26 (the November 2021 climate conference in Glasgow) how the director of the global…

Around the world, it seems that authoritarianism is on the rise. Xi Jinping in China and Vladimir Putin in Russia are two of the faces of authoritarianism. But this rise is not limited to Russia and China. The 2016 election of Donald Trump in the US and now increasing attempts…

With a fresh round of University and College Union (UCU) strikes in 58 British universities set to begin tomorrow, December 1, 2021, I thought it would be good to review the reasons behind why the strike is happening as well as set out my own view regarding the strikes. The…