Published in An Injustice!·PinnedHealthcare as Praxis: Mao, Guevera, Fanon, and the Black Panther PartyThe importance of health in anti-racist politics — A particularly interesting -yet oft forgotten- facet of radical politics is the importance that health and healthcare is afforded; the identification of the revolutionary potential of the free and fair distribution of healthcare, and the translation of the polyvalence of ‘health’ into concrete political ideology and practice. Central to this…Race8 min readRace8 min read
Published in Digital Diplomacy·Oct 10, 2021“Policing by consent”: Modern British Policing and Live Facial RecognitionHow the adoption of surveillance technologies is challenging British policing’s idea of consent — The long-standing model of British policing is “policing by consent”, meaning that the power of the police is derived from the respect and approval of the public more than from the authority of the state. …Facial Recognition5 min readFacial Recognition5 min read
Published in Digital Diplomacy·Mar 4, 2021COVID-19 and the Dangers of Accelerated DigitalisationThe speed at which we are developing essential technologies is leaving the most vulnerable behind — Digitalisation: the act of converting something physical to something digital as part of a wider transformation effort Digitalisation is a word that has become increasingly familiar to the British population over the past year, as essential services have been moved online across the course of the pandemic: from grocery shopping…Covid 194 min readCovid 194 min read
Published in Digital Diplomacy·Aug 17, 2020“F*ck the Algorithm”; a Rallying Cry For the FutureWhile the A-level results algorithm has been scrapped, this is just the beginning of the fight against encoding bias — The image of hundreds of students camped outside the Department of Education chanting “Fuck the algorithm” is one that is Orwellian in nature; forced to leave their homes to protest for their futures, which are almost entirely dependent on the whims of a mythical ‘algorithm’. They have not sat…Education4 min readEducation4 min read
Published in The Apeiron Blog·Jul 11, 2020BLM- The Social Contract Has Been Broken; What Now?According to John Locke, this makes the US overdue for a revolution, but in what form? — What is Social Contract Theory? Social contract theory is based on a real or hypothetical agreement between the people and their rulers, whereby people agree to surrender some of the freedom they enjoyed in a ‘state of nature’ (life without government), in return for the protection and security of government.Philosophy4 min readPhilosophy4 min read
Apr 11, 2020Boris Johnson and a ‘Veil of Ignorance’As Boris Johnson falls victim to his government’s disastrous COVID-19 policy, can we hope for a new age of empathetic politics? — In John Rawles’ 1971 book ‘Theory of Justice’, he wrote about a thought experiment which would come to be known as the ‘Veil of Ignorance’. In it, Rawls proposed that the only way for a person to design a truly just society would be behind a veil of ignorance where…Covid 194 min readCovid 194 min read
Jun 13, 2019The day we lost the Internet; parallels between Sudan and Egypt27 January 2011. For the first time in history, Internet access was severed for an entire country, including SMS messaging and mobile data, in a bid to halt communication between protestors; a desperate attempt to halt a popular uprising in Egypt within the wider context of the Arab Spring. This…Journalism4 min readJournalism4 min read
