Topical-Opinion

The sky is a brilliant blue and the sunlight beats down along the smooth canal. Speakers’ blast music, pearly smoke rises, and cans of Prazsky bob along the inky-blue water. The people enjoying cans and rollies are a colourful group from…

This showdown has been a long time coming.  But where to even begin? Not from the start, not from the referendum. No, we all know what happened with that. And there’s no point in wasting time with Theresa May and her many failed attempts at…

So you watch Love Island? Flaming garbage. The complete and utter nonsense that is to blame for the degeneration of society. The cultural choir of “Aw you don’t watch that shite, do you?” sings. The almighty clash between Low-Brow and…

With veganism gaining rapid momentum in the western academic and philosophical spheres, it becomes relevant to discuss various intersectional concepts that have arisen in its context. In her ground-breaking work The Sexual Politics of Meat,…

In 2016 a 16 year old Argentinian girl, Lucía Pérez, met up with two men she thought were friends, who she thought she was going to hang out with and smoke some weed. They led her to an abandoned building, brutally raped her, impaled her…

"The Grand Experiment," — these are the words founding father Alexander Hamilton used to describe the United States’ Democratic Republic. That was in 1788. Were you to compare what constitutes a "progressive" political idea in 2019 to the…

I’m on a first date. All is going well. We’re having the usual pints and chit chat. Getting to know each other in this capacity is easy. You don’t need to know the grisly details just yet. What do you do for a living? Where have you…

Drive down the L3210 and you roll through bog and woodlands and crossroads. Crucifixes and flowers mark the accident-sites where people were killed. And one-lane roads jut from its course into the country. Where they disappear around bends…

Dear Menstruators, In the course of just one short month we have had the launch of a period emoji and a documentary all about periods, Period. End of Sentence, won an Oscar. One can only conclude that periods are finally going mainstream.…

Have we lost track of time? It feels like some of our baby steps toward lasting social progress are years or decades overdue. If you want a convincing example of why this is the case, you don't need to look any further than a certain…