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2020’s

A Decade of Crises. Since the beginning of 2020, the world is changing in ways most of us did not expect it to. First it was the covid-19 crisis and what evolved from; it like lockdowns, draconian rules and new medical procedures. By the beginning of 2022 covid-19 seemed to be a thing of the past, and then the Ukraine War popped up its ugly… Read More »2020’s

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Follow the Yellow Brick Road

The future feels uncertain. If the events of the last 15 months have taught us anything it is not to take our freedoms, families and friends for granted. Just like Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz, we have found ourselves in a very strange place indeed. A land with completely alien rules and it feels like we arrived here overnight. So let’s link arms (regardless… Read More »Follow the Yellow Brick Road

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Young People In Politics

In pre-pandemic times I and two of my friends sat around a Wetherspoons table and somehow – like it always does – politics came up. One of them purposed that there were too many old people in politics and there should be a cut-off point in terms of age. The table soon dissolved into an argument of how you would be marginalising an age group,… Read More »Young People In Politics