Tag: Ronny Whetton


  • The Right Takes Rights: Tories, Reform and the ECHR

    In their 2024 manifesto ‘Our Contract With You’, Nigel Farage’s Reform Party committed itself to leaving the European Convention on Human Rights in order to ‘tackle immigration’ if they were to win the next election, which now seems likely. According to a YouGov poll, heading into the Conservative Party conference Reform polled the highest of…

  • Your Party: Begin Anew, Again?

    Pictured: Jeremy Corbyn (Wikimedia Commons) and Zarah Sultana (Wikimedia Commons) [Edited] For many, the news of the formation of a new left-wing party led by a former Labour leader and a former Labour MP was a source of hope, something rare in the current political landscape.  It sought to turn the current loose grouping of…

  • A Strike at the Heart

    A Strike at the Heart

    Image Credits: Flickr On the 21st of August, the National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers announced seven days of rolling strike action across the London Underground network, beginning on the 5th of September and ending on the 12th.  This came after negotiations with Transport for London fell through due to what the RMT…