In political examinations and studies, the overturning of Roe v. Wade is often framed as a singular tear — an abrupt legal interference that removed a constitutional protection in response to shifting ideological pressures. Some present it as a decisive turning point, a moment in which the trajectory of reproductive rights was abruptly altered. Others… Continue reading After Roe — the fragmentation of American freedom
“Give them bread and circuses and they will never revolt” — Juvenal The Bangladeshi Election On 12 February 2026, the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) was newly elected in Bangladesh and the people echoed on internet halls and streets that “the Gen Z revolution prevailed”. Sheikh Hasina’s 15-year rule, which was marked with unruly bloodshed and… Continue reading The psychology of a revolution — why people do ‘nothing’ in the West!
Over the weekend, a few of us indulged in a stretched-out debate. It started when one friend explained how she didn’t have the same conversations with her coworkers on the media and politics as she could in university. For her, environment mattered when it came to having intellectual discussions, which she found existed superfluously in… Continue reading An Oxbridge education doesn’t automatically make you an intellectual
“At a podium in front of the National Association of Evangelicals on 8 March 1983, Ronald Reagan delivered a line which would become synonymous with the US’s view of the Soviet Union for the rest of the Cold War. Reagan called on the evangelicals not “to ignore the facts of history and the aggressive impulses…”… Continue reading Has the United States become an evil empire?
What do we define as “Britishness”? In the most vague sense of the word, how do we as citizens of the UK define what it means to be British? Do we highlight the charming clichés of our love of an English breakfast tea, morning, afternoon and night, holding our mugs while gossiping about our neighbours… Continue reading The slow death of the United Kingdom & a need for alternative patriotism — what does Britishness need to be in the 21st century
Foreign billionaire banker, Jamie Dimon, has blackmailed the British government over its fiscal policy twice since November. See how capital rushes to protect its prospects. Jamie Dimon, US billionaire and CEO of the world’s largest bank JPMorganChase, warns the UK government that if they should dare to raise bank taxes or generally become “hostile to… Continue reading US oligarch Jamie Dimon threatens UK government — don’t become more left-wing
“But man is not made for defeat”, says the eponymous old man in 20th-century American novelist Ernest Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea, “A man can be destroyed but not defeated”. While this is one of the most famous quotes of an author revered around the world over 100 years after the publication of… Continue reading What would Ernest Hemingway make of the ‘Manosphere’?
In political and public affairs analysis, the resurgence of the far right is often framed as a fractured viewpoint — an unforeseen force with the intent of sabotage that has emerged in response to the crisis at hand. Some would call it the cry for help, much like the replacement of a blunt bent blade… Continue reading The rise of the far right isn’t sudden — we just stopped paying attention
“I am my own biggest critic… But for the rest of my life, I am going to be with me, and I don’t want to spend my life with someone who is always critical”. Most of us, myself included, believe that one of the most valued qualities we can have is that of self-reflection. I’ll… Continue reading The danger of knowing ourselves too well — when introspection turns into self-interrogation
It is often said that the only constants in life are death and taxes. But history suggests a third certainty — migration. As nations build borders and societies imagine themselves rooted in myths of permanence, humanity has always been in motion. Civilisations rise, expand, splinter and reform; people leave, arrive, return and transform the very… Continue reading A funnel in both directions — how global movement mirrors the age of empire
