• Why it’s good that North Korea might nuke America

    In The Matrix, Laurence Fishburne says to Keanu Reeves that his worldview is an imagined one that is being controlled by an external alien force, concealing a much bleaker reality. It’s something of an extension of the ideas of Antonio Gramsci, who puts forward the concept of cultural hegemony....
  • Nuclear Weapons: Is North Korea a Threat?

    Recently, no fewer than five nuclear testing reports have come out of North Korea, a state that seems to be detonating weapons of mass destruction unnervingly often. North Korea (or The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea) is possibly the most repressive state in the world, with a maddening system...
  • Liam Inscoe-Jones: “The Royal Family is the Greatest Embarrassment to Britain”

    As a nation, Britain is in turmoil. A month of increasingly ugly campaigning in the lead up to the EU referendum culminated last Thursday with the murder of an innocent MP, whilst indisputably racist propoganda is being foisted like it’s 1968, and football hooligans are commerating a miserable Euros...
  • Should We Be Travelling to North Korea?

    Most people would rather spend their holidays relaxing on a beach in the Mediterranean than embarking on a highly restricted tour of one of the most tightly controlled dictatorships in the world. The North Korean government, however, wants to change all that. Hoping to improve its international reputation, The...