Like much of the rest of the world, I was shocked when I discovered Joe Biden had ordered the US withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan by the 30th of August 2021, marking the end of a 20 year-long campaign beginning in 2001. The US and a coalition of over 40 countries, primarily made up of […]
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How much can we trust our elected representatives to govern this country?
In today’s current socio-economic climate, tensions are reaching breaking point and it therefore feels a most poignant time to ask the question – can our MPs, our elected representatives, really be trusted to do right by the will of the people and inspire creativity for the younger generation to create a better future? Amidst the […]
The UK’s Cost of Living Crisis
The UK could be facing a cost of living crisis in the coming months, with a recession imminent. Inflation is at 9.1% as of June 2022 and the price of petrol has increased from 135.4 pence to 191.5 pence in just 12 months which equates to an increase of over 41%. This is indicative of […]
Regional Inequality in the UK
The point which I have found to be most overwhelmingly clear, whilst researching the disparity between the levels of equity in the South compared to the North, is the extent of the issue and the profound effect which it is having on a vast number of people’s lives. Britain is a country with huge geographical […]
Charlie discusses Hitler’s rise to power and asks if something similar could happen again
What allowed Hitler to rise to power and could something similar happen again? As someone who has always been deeply interested in politics, it has always intrigued me how rapidly and to what extent Hitler managed to orchestrate the takeover of Germany, a country that had fully recovered from the first world war by 1929, […]