When I interviewed you previously in September 2015, you struck rather a pessimistic tone at the increasing power of the public health lobby and the nanny state, is it safe to say things have got worse since then? Very safe. Things generally do get worse. All you can do is hope to […]
The sugar tax is a bad policy being introduced for bad reasons and, worst of all, it’s another push down a slippery slope. Public health lobbyists have yet another win under their belt and they won’t stop there. You were warned. It’s a regressive tax and, like all consumption taxes, will hit the poorest the hardest […]
In case you haven’t noticed, today is International Women’s Day. Honestly, the whole thing makes me feel uncomfortable because I have only ever considered gender one part of my identity, and the way this day makes gender sound like the most important thing in the world just winds me up. But instead of allowing the […]
I don’t generally write about politics in the context of gender, because frankly, it doesn’t matter to me. Maybe it was a terrible oversight, but my mum simply didn’t bring me up to think about my gender in any political or economic context. And that’s why the past year or so has been particularly frustrating […]
By Ollie Marshall It’s time for the Conservatives to embrace a green future; end prohibition and legalise weed! The issue of Cannabis legalisation is one that tends to pop up every so often. Most recently it made headlines in the UK after Tim Farron included legalisation in the Lib Dem manifesto. I would argue that […]
The Seventies brought us Grease, Chicago and The Equal Pay Act. Ever since then, us ladies have been bopping along to Summer Nights, All That Jazz and the sweet sound of a income that is equal to that of a male employee employed by the same company doing the same job (catchy, I know). Yes, […]
It’s no secret that cannabis legalisation is a policy area that I feel particularly passionate about, and one that I degenerately thrust myself behind whenever I have a chance. As such, you may be surprised that I am not over the moon at a major (ish) party in the country I live announcing commitment to […]
On 23 June 2016 a small miracle happened in Northern Ireland. Despite polls placing the percentage of Northern Irish voters who were going to vote to leave the European Union at 13% in late 2015 and just 26% in the days before the referendum, 44% of Northern Irish voters turned out and voted leave. To […]
History, especially that section of history which passes into the national consciousness, is rarely fair. That is why it’s entirely possible that the present Government will be remembered, above all else, as the administration which lost the Union. The exact Brexit deal which is agreed, and its wider impact, will be a historic footnote compared […]
There’s a cartoon floating about the Remain pages on Facebook just now. The strip depicts a Brexiteer galleon sailing towards a precipice while the canny Scottish crew-members have liberated a skiff and are making for the shores of the European Union. There are two things wrong with this sketch; firstly, the shores of the EU […]
Giving an answer to a question in Parliament on Monday, the Home Secretary stated that she sees it as a priority for the UK to remain part of the European Arrest Warrant scheme after we leave the European Union. Citing it as ‘essential to the delivery of effective judgment on murderers, rapists and paedophiles’, she […]
On the 28th February 2017, CfL took their campaign against the European Arrest Warrant to the Houses of Parliament, in a session held in the Commons Committee rooms with Alexander Adamescu himself as a speaker, alongside Jacob Rees-Mogg MP, Stephen Woolfe MEP and Professor Tim Evans. Jacob Rees-Mogg began proceedings with his objections to the […]
