L.W.MarsdenDid Humanity Just Let a Golden Opportunity Slip Through it’s Fingers?How often do you find yourself bemoaning the rat race, our frantic, stress inducing pace of life, our pointless consumer culture and its…Mar 19, 2023Mar 19, 2023
L.W.MarsdenHow the media’s selective idealisation of the working class perpetuates inequalityWe are all familiar with ‘welfare scroungers’, with the ‘workshy’, the ‘skivers’, and the ‘feckless’. From the ‘guests’ of The Jeremy Kyle…Feb 2, 2023Feb 2, 2023
L.W.MarsdenThe Hamster Wheel: Modern Problems, and Why We Cannot Solve Them..Turn on the TV, or open up a newspaper and you are instantly bombarded with bad news: war, recession, climate change, poverty, etc. Why can…Jan 22, 2023Jan 22, 2023
L.W.MarsdenThe endgame: is humanity about to enter its most deadly contest yet?Climate change is an existential threat; one that requires global co-operation on an unprecedented scale. Can humanity overcome its…Dec 29, 20221Dec 29, 20221
L.W.Marsden‘Crackdowns’ on the right to protest reveal the state to which we have sunkPeople are increasingly pissed off at the way things are, but the powers that be are only interested in tackling the symptoms not the…Jul 21, 2022Jul 21, 2022
L.W.MarsdenA bitter pill to swallow: the lockdown allowed many to dream of a better life, the ‘cost of living…Having recently emerged from a pandemic, the UK, along with many other countries, finds itself in the thick of a ‘cost of living crisis’…Jun 18, 2022Jun 18, 2022
L.W.MarsdenAre School Policies Inadvertently Fueling Knife Crime?In recent years schools have began to take a zero-tolerance approach to fights between children. Is this a good thing? Or is it resulting…Nov 27, 2021Nov 27, 2021
L.W.MarsdenHas the pandemic really brought out the best in society, or simply highlighted our inaction on…There has been a tendency, particularly amongst the more optimistic, to view the response to the coronavirus pandemic as evidence of the…Nov 13, 2021Nov 13, 2021
L.W.MarsdenVaccine mandates are the thin end of the wedge..The move to make Covid vaccines mandatory for care workers and NHS staff in the UK mirrors similar vaccine mandates that have been put in…Nov 13, 2021Nov 13, 2021