Donald Trump kept us on our toes on the day following the recent terror attack in New York by writing extremely cogently, if tersely, on Twitter about the pitfalls in American Immigration Policy. I’d braced myself for an inappropriate reaction to the attack, given his frankly outrageous tweeted response to the English terrorist attacks in […]
NAFTA negotiations set to begin
NAFTA, the three way trade deal between Canada, the USA, and Mexico, now covers over a trillion dollars of trade between the nations since it was signed in 1992. Talks between governments are imminent, and while massaging the arrangements to keep up with a rapidly changing global economy will streamline trade between the countries concerned […]
Tories cap tuition fees in attempt to attract youth vote
Theresa May, in a move designed to attract youth voters, revealed plans to cap tuition fees as they currently stand at £9,250 going forward. She announced the move in a Telegraph exclusive on Saturday September 30th, the day before the Conservative Party Conference in Manchester. The policy locks student fees at their current level, but […]
Chelsea Manning’s early prison release
Chelsea Manning (formerly Bradley Manning), has just been released from prison after serving a fifth of her 35 year sentence on charges that in publishing almost three quarters of a million classified documents and videos, she had violated the Espionage Act, and knowingly aided the ‘enemy’. Assange’s Wikileaks and affiliated outlets published the documents, taken […]
The Comey Scandal
I’d been dreading this move for weeks. It’s directly in line with everything we know about Trump and the incompetence he’s surrounded himself with, so I’m not surprised to hear that President Trump has fired the head of the FBI, James Comey. The White House press has been vigorously engaging itself in vain attempts to […]
Why America was justified in bombing Syria
The issue here is a simple moral one concerning first, violence, and second, interventionism. I’ll appeal to the second Iraq war for reference. While the west ought to evaluate its position regarding international intervention before it can unhypocritically appoint itself the ethical watchdog of the developing world, it is not difficult to imagine what would […]
The millennial psyche: workplaces, careers & the boomers’ revenge
One of my seminar leaders in the term just gone regularly confused the term ‘millennial’ with ‘millenarian.’ If it was a Freudian slip, then I resent its implications. The difference between the two words is sonically miniscule, but semantically gargantuan. The latter group is hoping to bring about the apocalypse by any means necessary — […]