Month: November 2018

A guide to hate crime

Hate crime has its own brand-new website courtesy of Her Majesty’s Government. On www.hatecrime.campaign.gov.uk we are told how the government has designated [...]

Trump and Brexit: extreme or not?

One of the curious effects of the extreme polarisation of politics in the post-Trump and Brexit era is that people do not only disagree with current policy but [...]

The rich: who they are and why we need them

What does it mean to be rich? Who are the rich? And how rich are they? Do they make a lot of money or do they have a lot of money? Dividing the population up [...]

The War on Drugs: senseless, inhumane and failed

Drug use is a victimless crime. But the fact that we express our own preferences when we use drugs and don’t hurt anyone else in the process has not [...]