Month: August 2024
Education or Regulation? Disrupting Social Media’s Current of Racist Disinformation
It feels wrong to be discussing racism and islamophobia in conversations about the murders of the three young girls in Southport last Monday. The focus should be on the victims, their families, the community, and the facts of the incident. Yet, the rapid spread of misinformation and overt racism online means that conversations about six-year-old […] Source
JD Vance, Antinatalism, and Climate Change
In the wake of J D Vance’s childless cat lady comments in reference to Kamala Harris (yes, I am childless and, yes, I have a cat), I keyed the phrase ‘having children is selfish’ into Google. It wasn’t just J D Vance. I’d been talking with my mother about Jennifer Aniston’s reply to his statement, […] Source
English nationalism’s fascist problem
Hundreds march through Grangemouth in bid to save jobs at oil refinery
Let Glasgow flourish against fascism
One of the most alarming and worrying developments in British politics in recent years has been the normalisation and acceptance into the mainstream of far right Anglo-British nationalist politics. The BBC has played a major role in this process with its constant platforming of the odious Nigel Farage and his not…