Is America ready for a progressive candidate?
By Maritsa Tsioupra-Lewis On September 12th in Houston, Texas, the third Democratic debate commenced. With too-many-to-count candidates originally running in the Democratic primary, the group was dwindled down to ten…
The Un-United Kingdom: Scotland’s Brexit woes
By Louis Johnson The Brexit deadline is looming and as Britain prepares to leave the EU, ‘deal or no deal’, it looks as though our Union is beginning to fracture…
Hong Kong Protests Continue
By Wing Sham and Becca Bashford. Hong Kong and China have a very complicated political relationship. In the 1800s, China released Hong Kong to the United Kingdom for 99 years…
Milkman – the novel of the year?
Since winning the 50th Man Booker Prize for fiction, the demand for Anna Burns’ novel Milkman has been consistently on the incline. Having been described as rule-breaking, visionary, unique and…
Acting Political: Celebrity Involvement In The Political Landscape
Amid the build up to the US mid-term elections, global megastar Taylor Swift released a political statement via Instagram to her 112 million followers. Swift has previously been known for…
More Brit(ish) than ever: A review of Afua Hirsch at Brighton Festival
Afua Hirsch’s 2018 book – part memoir, part polemic – provokes mixed feelings. So too did her discussion of the topic at this year’s Brighton Festival. Don’t get me wrong,…
‘Dictator for life’ Xi Jinping bans book about dictatorship
Chinese leader Xi Jinping, now the Chinese ‘dictator for life’, has recently banned Orwell’s Animal Farm and 1984 as of February 2018. Some of the more unusual results of Xi…
Jeremy Corbyn is (still) not very good
After last June’s General Election results, it would be tempting to view Jeremy Corbyn as some kind of political genius. A victorious underdog and master communicator who finally made that…
‘Fire and Fury’: Personality trumps Policy
Journalist Michael Wolff unveils the character behind the caricature in his book Fire and Fury, revealing deception far beyond president Trump’s hacked hairdo. Fire and Fury has since reached inevitable…
Tory MP denounced after Brexit demand to universities
Vice-Chancellor Adam Tickell has refused Tory MP Chris Heaton-Harris’ request for a list of names of the academic staff who teach European politics and Brexit at The University of Sussex.…
The Badger Guide to Getting Political at Sussex
So here you are, a fresher at Sussex; fresh-faced, dewy-eyed and ready to embrace all the stereotypes of your new university. You’ve already gone vegan, swum in the sea, bought…
Did Labour win the election? A Sussex perspective
The short answer is obviously no. The Tories remain in power, for now at least, propped up by the DUP whose social views most in the UK and in the…
State of Nature: Immersive political theatre
This wasn’t theatre, this was an interactive evening in Utah with the State Governor, Merriweather, come terrorist which blew me away, literally, there is a terror explosion in the first…
An academic’s response to the Vice-Chancellor
The following open letter to the university Vice-Chancellor was sent to The Badger. We are happy to publish it as indeed we are always happy to publish letters written by…
Engaged Poetry by Stavros Anagnou
Stavros Anagnou, 4th year, BSc Biology. L.A : Where does your passion for poetry comes from ? S.A : “I fell in love with poetry for the first time by…
Trump Inaugural Launches Post-Normal Presidency
It takes some bravado for a man who failed to win the popular vote by nearly three million votes, and who enters the White House with the lowest approval ratings…
The end of ‘the end of history’?
Francis Fukuyama’s now-infamous and much-derided proclamation of the victory of liberal democracy now lies in tatters. It is increasingly clear that the globalised economy has made many feel that liberalism…
Big Debate: ‘Is globalism a failed project?’
Proposition Will Cronk Globalism is a wonderful force which does an extraordinary amount of good for an extraordinarily small number of people. The reason I describe it as a wonderful…
The Absurdity of Modern Politics
It is fair to say that we are living in troubled times. Not only troubled though, they are becoming increasingly absurd, this absurdity personified by Donald Trump and his ridiculous…
Why the world will miss President Obama
In the midst of an election which has morphed into a farcical contest between ‘no change’ and backwards change, it’s hard not to wonder what happened to American progressivism. Eight…