The Film "The American President" seems so divorced from the reality of the Trump era that it seems to belong to a bygone era. Yet one of the film's key scenes when Michael Douglas playing the role of US President declares that "it is entirely
Mainstream media won't say it but Andy Burnham and his puppetmasters from the corrupt "Labour Together"group have been utterly, utterly stupid. Almost as soon as he decided that there should be no limits on donations to political parties, two ultra-rich millionaires donated a total
A really good explainer. Even when we are on strike people learn things at Goldsmiths College. My colleague Professor Michael Rosen' s speech on the picket line this week was on such example. In a society dominated by right-wing oligarch media sometimes we need to refer back to
"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." Martin Luther King "Gender-critical beliefs" are currently protected in law in the UK, this means that anti gender-critical beliefs must also be equally protected in law. This article represents my current thinking regarding anti gender-critical
Arguably Emile Durkheim's most valuable contribution to sociology was his book Suicide. In it he explains very clearly that suicide is not a personal or individual matter. Suicide is always affected by the social/cultural/political. There will no doubt be attempts by those the media or media
There is a clear fundamental difference between the basis of most of Green Party's policies and those of labour and those of Labour, and that difference is crucial. As many have already noticed, Labour's policies, especially since the installation of Burnham as PM, are piecemeal and
The EHRC Code of Practice attempting to segregate and exclude trans people from public life is now been imposed and immediately there are court cases about it all over the country, a sure sign that it is badly-drafted nonsense. The complete flap that the head of the EHRC got
"Sometimes you are erased before you have the chance of stating who you are". Ocean Vuong In the second quarter of the 21st century the demographic mostly targeted for this form of torture known as conversion therapy is trans and non-binary children. In the coming weeks and
We have become used to regarding the attacks on trans people's human rights, like the attacks on groups like refugees and asylum seekers, Muslims and others, as "Culture wars" a perception the media has encouraged. The lowest hanging fruit and the wedge towards more repression. The
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