If we think of changing the world, and how big the changes which are needed are, it feels like a huge undertaking. It feels impossible: from where we are now, how could we possibly get there? I often feel this, as I think so many of us do. However: there is one thing that makes […]
‘Might is Right’ is the description of power as fact, and that power as fact triumphs over justice and what might actually be Right. It’s the brutal reality of power, and sometimes also the normative justifications that attempt to legitimise and perpetuate such a situation. An easy example is the school bully who beats up […]
The Government recently published their Covid ‘roadmap’ setting out what their plan for lifting restrictions over the coming months. I thought I’d write this blog post as a way of thinking through how I think and feel about it, partly to get them out of my head. If you want to live in sunny optimism, […]
In recent political events, we’ve seen demands for the removal of the Prime Minister’s top advisor and chief of staff, Dominic Cummings, as well as open speculation that Matt Hancock could be made to be the fall guy for the Government’s failings in dealing with coronavirus. But there’s another possibility: that Boris Johnson himself gets […]
Solidarity with all oppressed people and with everyone involved in the struggle to realise a better world. ** I have a lot of emotions in me, as I write this. I expect lots of us do at the moment – the virus situation; the latest wave of racial justice struggles, the black lives matter protests; […]
I recently realised that it’s still about two strategies. Though it’s something I knew at the start of the crisis, I had forgotten it recently, but in discussion of ‘exit strategies’ and hearing an expert talk about coming out of lockdown I was reminded that there are, still, two different strategies available. I wrote this […]
I recently realised that it’s still about two strategies. Though it’s something I knew at the start of the crisis, I had forgotten it recently, but in discussion of ‘exit strategies’ and hearing an expert talk about coming out of lockdown I was reminded that there are, still, two different strategies available. I wrote this […]
This post discusses rape (and sexual violence) allegations, in light of a recent case which I wrote about. ** A short piece I wrote before Christmas got published a few days ago. It’s on the Oxford Human Rights Hub Blog, and it’s a ‘case comment’, which means it is short and mostly about the facts […]
I wrote a blog post for Oxfam’s Views and Voices blog about the Human Rights aspects of Tax Dodging. This is both about the connection between them, and also what international human rights law says about it. It may be sort-of obvious that dodging tax is really harmful for people. In ‘developed’ countries we have […]
I’m a co-author on a report written about Brexit and Equality Rights by the Oxford Human Rights Hub. I was the research assistant so wrote the first drafts of it (which the professors then worked on, so more credit to them!), as well as doing the formatting and sending loads of emails. But many of […]
