General Politics

Sometimes I just need a space to rant about the Tories. Here it is! Enjoy.

I've not always been interested in politics. In fact, I made a point of saying how uninterested I was in politics all through secondary school, as if it was a unique personality trait.

What a difference a few years makes.

Ever since I read Naomi Klein's The Shock Doctrine in 2019, I've been left-wing. If there's any book that'll radicalise you from apathy about politics, I can't imagine many better than Klein's shocking account of neoliberalism. It did also help that I turned 18 that year, old enough to vote for the first time in an election between Jeremy Corbyn and Boris Johnson.

Below is a selection of blogs on various political topics - from arts funding to lockdown dancing. Most of it is satirical in tone, and not all of it is that great. A lot of these are more for my own benefit than anyone else's, and I think that's how they read.

Nonetheless, here's some rants:

Cancel All Non-Vegans - 16/11/2023

I Don't Know Enough - A Dialogue - 10/10/2023

They're Partying, and We're Not Invited - 09/12/2021

No Control in the 21st Century - 20/03/2021

Truth is Dead. Long Live Truth! - 12/11/2020

Rishi Sunak: Saving Artists From Themselves - 10/10/2020

Introducing Spacebook: Facebook's New Programme for Interdimensional Travel - 24/08/2020

Metaphors are not Heroes (And Similes know Exactly what this New Culture of 'Essential Wording' Worship Looks Like) - 27/07/2020

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