Dear Santa, Please stop eating so much cheese and drinking so much mulled wine. It’s making you fat and there’s already an obesity crisis; quite frankly, it’s food that could’ve gone to those living below the poverty line in this country. You know – the ones to whom you cut Read more…
It always amazes me how few people really believe in universal suffrage. How many people are willing to defend arbitrary restrictions on who can exercise their fundamental right to vote. How many don’t even question the incredible inequality that over 20% of our country face every single election. How many of the Read more…
I fear my choice of title has likely already disqualified my piece from winning the competition. Alas, it was never about winning, it was about owning the Cons and if I annoy some Orange Book reading group in the process, that would simply be the cherry on top. Besides Christmas Read more…
From the outset, I’d like to clarify this is in no way an endorsement of Liz Truss nor the Conservative party at the next general election. However given the recent Tory slump in the polls, the likelihood of an early general election seems diminished. Thus it is an inescapable truth Read more…
What I want for Christmas: money for people There’s a great episode of Seinfeld where George, in a desperate attempt to get out of buying Christmas gifts, tells his coworkers he’s made a donation in their name to The Human Fund, a charity with the slogan ‘money for people’. The gag, of Read more…
As our blog post competition draws to a close, the first thing to note is how impressive CULA members have once again shown themselves to be. Both in terms of the choices of icons and the quality…
Most theories of politics, in my view, are theories of content rather than of structure. Political philosophers are too keen to tell us what we should be discussing, rather than how we should be discussing it.
Voltaire is my liberal icon because he was a man of many talents and imparted his views on the world through almost every channel possible: he was a philosopher, author, historian, economist, human rights activist, and scientist.
In the 21st century it is difficult to have icons. Finding historical figures who didn’t engage in problematic behaviour when viewed in the light of today is a challenge in and of itself. Even figures such as…
The liberal icon I’ve chosen is George Eliot, although I haven’t yet read most of what she wrote. She has been described as both a romantic conservative and a radical Millian liberal, and no doubt was both at different points in her life. But whatever…