In a year that saw the death of so many music stars, there was still something particularly painful about George Michael's death. This may be highly subjective but I think that for those of us in...
Welcome to this week's recommended reading, gentle readers! We're thinking about shifting policy issues as the final weeks of the Obama Administration dwindle to an end. What lies in store with the...
It’s January, which means the TV is full of ads for low-calorie yoghurt and high-priced slimming clubs. Are you bloated? Have you overdone it during the holiday season? Well, these sugar...
The last hope of overturning the election result has been shattered with the “failsafe” of the Electoral College going to Trump. Sure, there were faithless electors, but the vast majority of them...
In the final days of the Obama Administration and current Federal Communications Commission, commissioners covered a number of business items, including a brush with license revocation for Pacifica...
The Democratic Party needs to have tough conversations about race. But we can’t, because white people are too sensitive. “Not all white people are racist.” “When you stereotype white people,...
Happy new year! 2017 is likely to be an eventful year, and we're curious about what lies ahead for US politics as well as America's position in the world. A lot is at stake, including fragile climate...
2016 has been the year that saw Neo-Liberalism finally implode like a dying star. Its death throes vomited forth a Donald Trump presidency and the bitter divisions of Brexit, post truth politics and...
As news breaks that actor Debbie Reynolds has died, just a day after her daughter Carrie Fisher, it is a bleak reminder that finding positive spins on 2016 is always going to be a bit of a challenge....
I recently watched the episode of Black Mirror, “San Junipero,” where a woman in a vegetative state chooses to upload her consciousness into a computer where she will live forever; young and in...
