Category: Opinion

Why Teaching Canonical Texts Still Matters

November 7, 2018 | by | 0 Comments
Though the literary canon has fallen out of favour with many teachers, introducing it to students is still a valuable and worthwhile exercise. In one of the first tutorials for my Secondary English class at university, back when I was beginning a Master of Teaching degree a year and a half ago, the topic of […] Read more

The Bad Medicine of Transgenderism – Repeating Errors of the Past

November 1, 2018 | by | 0 Comments
In 1536 a 22-year-old medical student stole a body from the gallows.  It was illegal, but his scientific curiosity prevailed.  Andreas Vesalius would go on to change understanding of anatomy with his seminal work, De Humani Corporis Fabrica (On the Fabric of the Human Body).  This was not what he set out to do, however.  […] Read more

Now is the Time – Britain Must Stand Against Saudi Arabia

October 23, 2018 | by | 0 Comments
By Stephen Hawkins What kind of line must Saudi Arabia cross before Britain stops defending the regime and starts politically and economically isolating the state? There is a number of approaches when one poses the question of how Britain can deal with a state that consistently and persistently violates human rights, follows a fundamentally Islamist agenda, and […] Read more

The Blind Spot of Race: Are the Japanese Racially Privileged?

October 20, 2018 | by | 0 Comments
By Shozo Kamiya Considerations on the racial privileges of the Japanese shed light on the blind spot of the anti-racist literature with highly revolutionary implications. In recent literature concerning racism, the concept of “racial privilege” is increasingly adopted as an effective tool to analyse problematic social phenomena related to racism. Whilst It can certainly be […] Read more