Boris Johnson’s ‘Green Industrial Revolution’: World Leading?

In November 2021, the UK will host the 26th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26) in Glasgow, which will help accelerate action towards the goals of the Paris Agreement and the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. Delayed by one year (excruciatingly for the climate) because of the Covid pandemic, it is set

Gouldnomics and the ‘Future of Socialism’

Its 1989 and Labour is going through the throes of its quest for ‘Modernisation’. Tony Benn has just lost the leadership election, depressing a generation of Labour activists, and Peter Mandelson has begun to ramp up his project that would eventually become New Labour. In this rather fluid climate of shifting allegiances, policies and politics,

Turning a blind eye: when people remain silent to abuse in the name of religion, tradition, and culture.

The idea that people in the 21st Century are silent about abuse appears to be an absurd notion. Public opinion is increasingly aware of abuses that occur behind closed doors, and the responsibility of safeguarding to protect the most vulnerable. Case studies of Daniel Pelka, Baby P, and even the institutional abuses at Winterbourne View

Diesel Trains: A very Lincoln Conundrum

In Lincoln we are well accustomed to the railways at the centre of our city. Intercity expresses, local services and freight trains frequent Lincoln 7 days a week, cutting across the high street and university campus. Lincoln, unfortunately, sits off the east coast main line meaning when it comes to investment in the services and

Drinking in a time of Covid

The 4th of July isn’t usually a day of celebration in the UK, but this year we all had our own independence day as lockdown restrictions were lifted a little more. Britons are fuelled by tea, fish and chips, and pints – so the legal ban from going “t’pub” demonstrated how serious this pandemic really

Blog 1201 Editorial – Before We Return to ‘Normal’, First Let’s Think About What ‘Normal’ Means

Pubs, Primark and Pret are back. Yes, after four months of lockdown, achingly, ‘normality’ is creeping back in the UK. There are, however, two reasons why we should hesitate at, and question, the slow-rolling slide back to ‘normal’.  The first, the obvious, is that we are still not in a safe and secure enough place

Local Lockdown in Leicester

The motto of Leicester that is engraved outside the city’s town hall is ‘Semper Eadem’ which translates into English as ‘always the same.’ It is interesting that a city with such a motto would create package holidays, find a King in a Car Park and despite 5000/1 odds against its football team, go on to

The cost of a billion cows – farming animals in an advanced society

The meat and dairy industries have always been at the forefront of agriculture. It is hard to ignore the ways in which farming animals has shaped our society and culture, for thousands of years. As populations have boomed in the last two hundred years, from 1.2 billion in 1850 to almost 7.8 billion in 2020,

The credibility of Lincoln SU to sincerely tackle systemic racism has been severely damaged by it’s latest blunder.

On the 16th June, the University of Lincoln Students Union (ULSU) released a statement through its social media channels, said to be written by the CEO James Brooks. In the statement it says that the Union hadn’t done enough to combat racism and outlined a number of steps it was going to take to identify

Politics cannot change until our media does – The vicious circle of the media and public opinion

“Most of what passes as political journalism would fit better in a gossip column” – George Monbiot (This is an adapted version of a piece that appeared on the author’s on site, that can be viewed here.) No matter how broken and dilapidated it gets, we will never be able to change our political system