Years and Years, and Yet so Far to Go
A few weeks ago, my father suggested that I watch a new and exciting…
Why France’s ‘gilets jaunes’ protesters are so angry
France’s “gilets jaunes” protests of December 1 were marked not only by their anger…
Paramilitaries still cast shadows over lives of young people in Northern Ireland
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the…
Imagining Poppies
Poppies on cakes, poppies on buses, poppies on hawks, and even Liz Trusses. Every…
Repeal! Ireland Abortion referendum
Thirty-five years after it was placed into the Irish Constitution, the electorate voted for…
Trump isn’t Fascist, He’s a Massive Liberal Dump
Donald Trump has signed an executive order that will limit immigration and refugees from…
“My war, my kills and my kids”: American Sniper and the glorification of military violence
Chris Kyle is to date the US military’s most prolific sniper who wrote bestselling…
Revolt on the air – Radio Activism, Protest and French Politics
Radio is an old medium that seems to struggle to renew itself. With the…
“Decent housing for all!” The UK Squatters Movement 1968-1980
On 1st December 1968 a small group of homeless people and libertarian anarchists calling…
1978. Punk is Dead. Where have you Been?
Punk was inextricably linked to Britain’s social, political and economic environment during the 1970s….
Same Old New Labour
Jeremy Corbyn was intended to be a clever political tool and marketing ploy. Smarting…
Brexit and the Partition of the Nonsensical
Let there be no mistake – Brexit, at its core, was a vote against…
The Möbius strip of national and world security
The apparently boundless scope of mass surveillance revealed by Snowden beggared the imagination. Not…
Incitement to terrorism and the regulation of free speech
Current negotiations on an European Union (EU) Directive defining terrorism intends to accord a…
Rollback or Legalisation? Mass Surveillance in France and the Snowden Paradox
On June the 5th, it will be exactly three years since Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist…
Denaturalisation, ‘Terrorism’ and National Identity in France
Hannah Arendt once stated that we might “measure the degree of totalitarian infection by…
Brussels attacks and the Law of unintended consequences
On March 22, 2016 Brussels has been targeted and no less than 32 persons…
Freedom for Tooting! Self-professed urban guerrilla in a 1970s BBC sitcom
“Citizen Smith” is one of these extraordinary 1970s British sitcoms that one should rediscover….
Digital Extremism? Frisking Terror in Video Games
Extremism and terrorism have infected popular culture in recent years. Television and film heavily…
Political Cartoons – Why killing the canary doesn’t save the miner
Outrage over offensive political cartoons is a curious reaction to a medium incapable of…
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