Tag: Thomas Starr


  • Libertarianism, lies, and legacy: What does Reform actually promise?

    source: wikipedia commons In a country scarred by decades of neoliberalism, it seems almost farcical that the party that is predicted to win the largest number of seats is offering the same, only worse.  Nigel Farage has presented Reform UK as a rebellion against the status quo, but beneath his promises of “common sense” lies an agenda – one…

  • Drunk on Power: The political class has a drinking problem

    Image credit: Palace of Westminster, Wikimedia Commons A teacher, a warehouse worker, and an MP walk into a bar. Only two of them are liable to criticism, apparently. Newly elected Gorton and Denton MP Hannah Spencer has recently come under fire from MPs after exposing a drinking culture within Parliament. The Green MP questioned Keir Starmer…

  • Missing the Mark: Farage’s gun policy proposals

    Every so often, Nigel Farage finds a new way to hit headlines by saying the most controversial statements he can. Farage has again come under fire for his adamant stance that the handgun laws implemented after the Dunblane massacre were unnecessary. Ever the pragmatist, Farage deemed these comments appropriate just after the 30th anniversary of…