“A riot” Martin Luther King Junior once said “is the language of the unheard”; the clamour of a disenfranchised people ultimately frustrated by those in authority that are not listening to or just plain ignoring. Regardless of legitimacy of the action, the last few months has witnessed British students’ attempts to have their utterances heard. [...]
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For many years I attempted to avoid being pigeon-holed; a simple synopsis of my existence that could reduce me into a pithy short sentence. I despised the idea that my entire life could be condensed to a single epitaph that somehow allows strangers to easily surmise my thirty three years on this planet, and in [...]
Most political philosophers are a profound product of their time – they occupy and remain fixed in a specific era that easily identifies them as a child of a certain generation; it is easy to admire with hindsight, Mary Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Women or Thomas Hobbes’ Leviathan, but it is vital [...]
Through the vast cascade of unfathomable chattering and half spoken truths of international politics, the individual is deafened to all but the loudest and most visceral. But cutting this grotesque clamour is a voice. Just a quiet, frail and unassuming voice, which imparts all the wisdom and confidence of a man that believes he is [...]
