Our rising self-care trend: a bandaid fix on a bullet wound problem?
A discussion on UK mental health services, and the help and support that people are still struggling to find. (Source: Forbes) A quick google search of ‘mental health’ will produce about 821,000,000 results in less than a second, and it’ll provide you with an array of information - ranging from the websites of popular charities and organisations to the latest news articles about how “Mental health patients missing GP appointments [are] ‘at risk’”. But how is it, that in this
Reliving the past in Anti-Semitism: Origins, Persistence and Solutions
Anti-semitism, a sense of hostility or prejudice against individuals of the Jewish religion, has lurked in the darkness for the latter half of the 20th century, seemingly a silenced feat of history. Yet, in the current days of political turmoil, history’s oldest hatred has once again surfaced as an issue in the mainstream media - an issue tangibly present in our collective consciousness. Image credits: Dawson, S. (2018) The Origins of Anti-Semitism The anti-semitism movement
Should the UK implement a maximum wage?
What is a Maximum Wage? A ‘maximum wage’ is a “legal limit on how much income an individual can earn” (Dietl, H., Duschl, T. and Lang, M. 2010), and has been spotlighted due to reports of ‘fat cat salaries’ such as Sir Martin Sorrell’s £70.4 million salary. This article explores whether a wage cap is economically beneficial. While a maximum wage hasn’t recently been implemented in the UK, in 2012 France’s Jean-Luc Melenchón argued for a 100% tax rate (a wage ceiling equivalen
