Gen Z Reverie

       One of our greatest bards said that the world is but a stage and the people merely actors upon it. If Shakespeare was right, then Alexander Salmond and Nicola Sturgeon are putting on a virtuoso performance. The back and forth of this narrative would make a quality play or TV series: a clash between the mentor and the protégée, scandal, potential treachery and intrigue and a shock political comeback.   When you zoom out and look at the bigger picture, you see the full ramifications. If, one day, the SNP succeed in gaining independence for their country, they will terminate a structure that has been in place for over 300 years.       The United Kingdom, which has already had to reconsider its identity after Brexit, would be left fragmented, with its place in the world in jeopardy. The conflict between Salmond and Sturgeon has done damage to the SNP cause, and this damage has been exacerbated by the dire economic consequences of COVID but...

   I was scrolling through twitter on the 29th of April (procrastinating) when I saw that David Lammy was trending. I decided to follow this up and was intrigued by the positivity that was being channelled towards him. Politics is a brutal business, and few MP’s have received as much vitriol and sheer savaging as the MP for Tottenham. We know him as a passionate campaigner, a seemingly lone voice crying out against the injustices that blight our commonweal. Few can forget his condemnation of the Windrush scandal, the agony that gripped his voice as he expressed the sense of betrayal felt by ethnic minorities across the UK who were wrongfully deported in what Lammy titled the “national day of shame.” However, lone voices are an easy target for the opposition, and Lammy's defiant stances have earned him the burning hatred of many right-wingers in the UK. I soon discovered that Lammy's surge in popularity was the result of his performance in an LBC video, in which he chall...