All posts tagged donald trump
Rees-Mogg: What Actually Happened?
So, Jacob Rees-Mogg spoke at our university. Tickets sold out within hours, which is unusual even given the quality events that the Mile End Institute puts on. The queue, I’m […]
$450million: something to hang above your mantelpiece?
Between Trump’s tweet-storm, including his claim of being a “very stable genius”, the actual bombshell-storm that hit the American East Coast and uprisings in Iran, the fact that Saudi prince […]
Time Person of the Year: The Silence Breakers… and Donald Trump
TIME has named their ‘Person of the Year’ as The Silence Breakers; people of various ages, races, gender and professions who have spoken out against sexual assault. In a post-Weinstein […]
Why Bojack Horseman will save us all
There’s a certain kind of conversation you will have in your undergraduate years if you are doing a Humanities degree. You will be at the pub, or at a party, […]
Terrifyingly Divisive Memes for Really Confused Political Teens
I was recently asked at work to name all the US states that I could on the map, and, if possible, locate them. I named seven, and got four right […]
Why the allegations against Harvey Weinstein matter
Content warning: sexual assault With the recent allegations against Harvey Weinstein being made public, we need to talk about sexual assault. Weinstein has been accused of varying degrees of sexual […]
Somewhere over the rainbow, Bestival is a modern Oz
Ah festivals, sh*tty camping, loud, but banging, music, lots of substances ingested and the hangover from hell at the end of it. Hundreds of thousands of Brits flock to them […]
Director Tony Scott, Clairvoyant? – How Crimson Tide Can Serve as a Lesson to Us and the Powers that Be
The first time I had seen this tense submarine thriller, I thought it was an exciting, well-acted and ideologically challenging piece of filmmaking. However, when I recently revisited it, I […]
The British Museum presents: The American (Unobtainable?) Dream
The American nation, currently in a politically frenzied state not that dissimilar from our own, still unfortunately showcases yet also battles scenarios of racism, feminism, and many more “isms”. The […]