In social and cultural analysis, the rise of online misogyny is often framed as the result of controversial figures maliciously planting their seeds of deceit and idealistic personas. Yet, numerous young boys are being sucked into the whirlpool of the “alpha male” — from yachts and sportscars, to any girl at their fingertips from the… Continue reading The dark side of modern masculinity—why are so many young men being drawn into the manosphere
Society often interprets rape and sexual assault as crimes that start with an attack and conclude with an investigation, trial or conviction. Public interest tends to follow this same narrow pattern. Headlines focus on allegations, arrests and court proceedings, while political debates frequently centre on sentencing and criminal justice reform. For many survivors, the assault… Continue reading Sexual assault does not end when the assault ends
For the past few years, polling gains, local election victories and Nigel Farage’s increasingly dominant presence in Westminster have all fuelled questions about what a Reform government would mean for the country’s future. But at what cost to women? The answer is not confined to a single manifesto pledge or campaign speech. Instead, it emerges… Continue reading What Reform UK could mean for women—beyond the ballot box
New York City has long been more than just America’s largest city. It has often served as a political testing ground where new ideas are introduced, challenged and sometimes exported across the country. From public health initiatives to policing strategies and housing policies, decisions made in New York frequently influence national conversations. Seven months into… Continue reading Seven months into Zohran Mamdani’s mayoralty — could New York be shaping the future of American politics?
Border externalisation — the outsourcing of migration control to states beyond a country’s borders — has quietly become a defining feature of modern border policy. Marketed as “partnerships” and “capacity building”, it in fact creates a transnational system of delegated violence, where accountability evaporates and suffering becomes someone else’s problem. The EU–Libya arrangement reveals this… Continue reading Responsibility laundering — how democracies outsource border violence
On 3 January 2026, US forces abducted Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro, claiming he was controlling drug operations through Venezuela. As the Venezuelan government changed hands, and the new leader complied with American interests in oil, one country was left to face devastating energy problems and ongoing threats: Cuba. Since Venezuela supplied most of Cuba’s crude… Continue reading Cuba through time
Whilst the UK Parliament is focused on banning phones from schools for under-16s, a far more urgent dimension of digital safeguarding is being neglected and misunderstood: AI-generated sexual abuse material. In late December 2025 and early 2026, a pivotal moment in the fight against online sexual abuse emerged, not through a legislative breakthrough, but through… Continue reading The uncontrolled proliferation of AI-generated sexual abuse material — why regulatory promises fail victims
The conflict between the United States and Iran that has unfolded in 2026 is increasingly understood less as a single, linear war with one decisive battlefield and more as an extended struggle of coercion, deterrence and intermittent force. In this form, the “war” is not defined only by strikes or dramatic confrontations, but by sustained… Continue reading The US–Iran war in 2026 — how escalating pressure shapes America, Iran and the rest of the world
I walked out of The Immortal Man grieving a character that never existed. The film beautifully presents us with the unwrapped gift of death. Of confrontation. Of full realisation. The immigrant circle of life, so to speak. And yet even with the finality of Tommy’s mortality, we as an audience are left with a sadness… Continue reading The complexity and reality of mortality of the Peaky Blinders
School shootings are often described by the media as singular eruptions of violence that momentarily fracture public life before disappearing back into political deadlock. The focus is usually placed on the instantaneous horror — the death toll, the shooter, the blunders of law enforcement and the debate over gun control that follows. Yet this framing… Continue reading The crisis of school shootings isn’t only violence — it’s the redefinition of childhood
