Maybe the right is right. Perhaps we, on the student left, are snowflakes. There are certainly some uncanny similarities, and not, as one individual wrote, without a flake of irony, that “when we come together we become a mighty blizzard.” Many of us evidently feel fragile enough to mandate non-contact with anything aside other snowflakes. […]
Liberalism
Gender neutral parenting – right or wrong?
As I entered my fifth consecutive hour of procrastination today I sifted through several of the trending videos on YouTube. Instead of the usual cat-fodder however, this afternoon’s seductress came in the form of a 4-minute interview with a couple raising their two children gender neutrally. How lovely, I thought. It was only a few […]
“David Cameron is the most dangerous Prime Minister of our time” – An interview with Paddy Ashdown
“I sincerely hope that you’re not one of those selfie-obsessives” Lord Jeremy ‘Paddy’ Ashdown jokes as he enters one of the Forum’s numerous faux-salubrious seminar rooms. Dismissing the accusation, I happily reassure him that the next twenty minutes will not consist of any gratuitous and/or narcissistic camera angles, to which he chuckles. Even in his mid-seventies, […]
“Islamism is a vast killing machine” – An interview with Maryam Namazie
When I first sit down to interview Maryam Namazie, I notice how calm she seems. It’s her bodyguards who seem nervous; they barrel back and forth through the building’s doors. When Namazie goes to the bathroom, one bodyguard waits five minutes before rushing after her, his colleague pacing across the lobby. Iranian-born Namazie is, after […]