Tag: Trump
Testing Times for Trump
As of the 8th March 2019, Paul Manafort, Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman, has been sentenced to 47 months in prison, after charges for...
Venezuela: How the Media Got It Wrong
Venezuela is a topic on which our media has failed us. A dramatic claim, yes, but something which has become abundantly clear in recent...
US Election Profile: Best of the Rest
Unusually for an election against a sitting Republican president, there could be a wide number of Democratic candidates who make a run for the...
Bird Box – Review
Could this be the front-runner for most memed movie of the year? Bird Box, Netflix’s latest viral hit, is a clunky mish-mash of a...
US Government Shutdown Continues
The United States has broken their national record for the longest government shutdown in history, lasting over six weeks since the 22nd December 2018,...
Album Review: The 1975 – A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships
Shortly after the release of The 1975’s second record in 2016, I like it when you sleep, for you are so beautiful, yet so unaware...
Wanted: Modern- Day Dickens
If there’s one thing that’s on everybody’s mind these days - it’s politics. Who said what, who did what, who trumped who (ha), who’s...
Gun Control in the US: How Long Until Change?
Orlando June 12th 2016, Las Vegas 1st October 2017, Sutherland Springs November 5th 2017, Parkland 20th February 2018, Santa Fe May 10th 2018, Pittsburgh October 27th 2018 and Thousand Oaks...
Civility: The Last Resort against Terror
In recent weeks several critics of American President Donald Trump were sent suspicious packages containing pipe bombs. The apparent threat, made to the recipients,...
How to Build a Better Britain: An Interview with Owen Jones
You could say that Owen Jones has a knack for spotting trouble – the socio-political kind, at least. In 2011, less than half a...
