In his famous piece Moving On Ralph Miliband wrote " is that the belief in the effective transformation of the Labour Party into an instrument of socialist policies is the most crippling of all illusions to which socialists in Britain have been prone." This is a phrase and idea which…

Today, Labour has finally announced that alongside backing a second referendum, it would back remain if the options were no deal or a Tory deal. Whilst this seems like a minor shift in policy, by coming out for remain (specifically in these conditions) it has caused me personally to think…

An essay submitted in my final year of undergrad looking at the way in which the US has used international legal arguments to further it’s own justification for war. — The stringing together of events by international lawyers and more importantly by states in their interpretation of the law, has been an attempt to construct a narrative of development of the law. This work will demonstrate this with the war on terror and with particular focus on the expansion of…

Whilst the Brexit negotiations seem stuck in endless domestic issues here in the UK, the wider and structural problems with the process of leaving have been ignored in recent months. Here I attempt to set out what I believe to be the three key issues with Article 50, whilst some…