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Why is this government incapable of admitting that it’s made mistakes?
The other day, I was scrolling through Facebook when I happened to see a video of Conservative MP Jacob Rees-Mogg. In the video, Rees-Mogg declared that the public were unnecessarily “carping” about the shortage in coronavirus tests across the UK and that instead, we should praise the government for its “phenomenal success” of a testing programme. I…
Gardening in a pandemic: a story of COVID, TikTok, climate change, courgettes and classism.
When the government announced lockdown towards the end of March after I’d just got home from university, the world suddenly felt strange and full of uncertainty. “Out of sorts” would be the best way to describe how I felt for the first few weeks of lockdown. Like the majority of people, I found it hard…
Climate change isn’t your fault: the blame game in the mainstream environmental movement misses the point
Although climate change has moved to the forefront of public life in the last decade, with activists such as Greta Thunberg and movements like Extinction Rebellion (XR) becoming household names worldwide, the climate crisis itself remains something which- for those who are fortunate enough to live without experiencing the effects of climate change- is still…
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