America, once the self-declared land of the free, is hurtling towards something chillingly familiar—Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale, but with worse food and even more guns. With Donald Trump poised for a return to power, the country stands on the brink of a far-right, theocratic nightmare, where civil liberties are stripped away in the name of religious extremism.
A Nation Under Religious Rule
The warning signs could not be ...
Like most people, when I first heard about Lucy Letby’s conviction, I had no doubt that justice had been served. The idea of a neonatal nurse deliberately harming babies is horrifying beyond words, and her whole-life sentence seemed to reflect the gravity of the crimes she was found guilty of.
But now, after reading the recent Private Eye report on the case, I find myself unsettled. I am not a legal expert, nor do I claim to know whether ...
In today’s media circus, the myth of wokeness has become the rallying cry for a certain band of dodgy pundits. Outlets like GB News and their merry band of followers who claim that nowadays, no one can utter a word without risk of being muzzled by an omnipotent censor. The reality, however, is far more laughable and darkly ironic: it’s not that society has suddenly decided to slap a gag on free speech, more one that doesn’t like cunts ...
For decades, Donald Trump has insisted he is a brilliant businessman, a titan of industry, and the very embodiment of the American Dream. But let’s take a moment to pop that gold-plated, ego-inflated bubble. The reality? He’s less a self-made billionaire and more a rich kid with a knack for setting piles of money on fire while convincing people he’s a financial genius.
The Bullshit Empire Trump Didn’t Build
Trump likes to tell ...
It’s comforting to think that here in the UK, we are a bit more sensible than our friends across the Atlantic. After all, we don’t elect spray-tanned game show hosts to run the country (we prefer our Etonian buffoons with a touch of classical education). We don’t have gun-wielding lunatics storming Parliament (we just let them Tweet their grievances in block capitals). And we certainly don’t go in for the cultish adoration of wannabe ...
