What to do about authoritarianism within our own systems. — No one should reach the age of eighteen without understanding how their vote works or how to recognise when it doesn’t. That so many of us from working class communities hit voting age without this basic education is as embarrassing as it is dangerous. To be clear, we aren’t at…

Here’s an introductory list of free academic resources — I love what I do, but I hate how many academics seem determined to keep their knowledge from the vast majority of the population. It’s as though they think we’re some secret club, with a degree-level door price and members who can burst into spontaneous Latin on demand. Having accidentally…

A pregnant feminist’s take on birth-strikers and the voluntarily child-free. — Birth-strikers are those who decide against having children for the sake of the environment. Predominantly women, these climate activists face down societal judgement, increased work pressure and problems with personal relationships — all because they’ve decided to put the fate of the planet above their own wants and needs.

Here’s a list of free online resources to help you get started. — For a long time, I didn’t care about politics. Growing up working class in the UK, we are intentionally not taught about our political system, how it works, and what it has done in the past. …

A misguided assumption about contemporary socialism — Old, white men ask me a lot of questions about socialism, but nothing quite excites me like answering an old white man’s question about investment, innovation, and risk in socialist societies:

Translating the academic debate and its jargon — Judging from the fallout of my previous article — which asked: “Why are Americans and Conservatives So Afraid of Socialism?” — there is a lot of confusion over what socialism is. And, judging from the arguments raging through my responses, much of this confusion comes from self-proclaimed socialists themselves. As…

Is there more to this fear than nearly a century of propaganda? — I went a little bit viral on TikTok recently for voicing the unthinkable: I said that I like paying taxes. As you might imagine, it was predominantly the Americans and Conservatives in my comment section who found themselves shocked and appalled. The words communist and socialist were thrown around like…

Nigel Farage’s “campaign” is as dangerous as it is self-serving. — He tried to set himself up as the Donald Trump of Great Britain, stoking up xenophobia to turn the ‘white’ working class against immigrants, minorities, women, liberals, lefties, and all manner of apparent undesirables. Other than a few gimmicky appearances alongside №45, however, Farage hasn’t exactly made a name for…

If you want to understand a country, listen to its women. — After an entire childhood stuck firmly within the trappings of the English Canon, I read my first Chinese author a few months before my sixteenth birthday. Her name was Jung Chang and reading her literally changed my life. I Moved to the Other Side of the World Because of a Book How the story of three incredible women forced me out of my comfort zone and onto a plane bound for China.medium.com