The House of Lords is the upper house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom and is made up of 798 peers. The peerage is comprised of 26 archbishops and bishops of the Church of […]
David Cameron and Greensill: What can be done to prevent further lobbying scandals?
David Cameron is at the centre of the UK’s largest lobbying scandal in a decade. Through emails, text messages and meetings, the former Prime Minister relentlessly pushed government and central bank officials on behalf of […]
BLM protests vs Capitol riots: police action
On the 6th of January, thousands of Trump supporters broke into the United States Capitol and proceeded to occupy, vandalize, destroy and loot parts of the building. The shocking pro-Trump riot was an attempt to […]
Savage X Fenty features its first plus size male model
Fiona Western discusses the impact of Rihanna’s latest casting: Savage X Fenty’s first plus-size male model.
#ENDSARS: What is going on in Nigeria?
The hashtag #ENDSARS has taken the media by storm as Nigerian citizens demand the termination of the ‘Special Anti-Robbery Squad’, also known as ‘SARS’. The controversial police force unit has been notorious for brutality and […]
Brunei Is Stoning Its LGBTI Citizens To Death. Will Western Activism Help?
On 3rd April, the South-East Asian country Brunei officially made gay sex acts punishable by stoning to death. Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah established Brunei’s Sharia penal code in 2014 with the aim of increasing Islam’s influence. […]
The Classism Involved In Madeleine McCann’s Disappearance
The Netflix documentary ‘The Disappearance of Madeleine McCann’ debuted on Netflix last Friday and the debate surrounding the case has once again been ignited. Madeleine disappeared in May 2007, almost twelve years ago, and yet her story continues to fill the news. Does the McCann case versus the Shannon Matthews case say expose the prevailing existence of classism in the media? Shannon Matthews was a working-class girl from Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, who went missing in 2008. The media coverage she received compared to Madeleine was minimal so why are we still talking about Madeliene? Many, Guardian columnist Owen Jones included have pointed to the fact that the McCanns are decidedly middle-class with contacts in the media invites the question, are the McCanns only walking free uncharged of child negligence or worse because of their status as middle-class doctors?