Jack Taylor

Last Thursday, I got the train down to London with a mate to attend a Spectator event in at Cadogan Hall in Belgravia. At the event, Andrew Neil quizzed George Osborne about the build up to the financial crisis of 2007/08 and its legacy, as well as the role...

The issue of tuition fees is a controversial topic that is dominating current politics. Labour’s promise to abolish fees has rallied much of the typically apathetic youth around Jeremy Corbyn, whereas current government policy receives great criticism within the student community. Corbyn’s stance on tuition fees in part explains...

If you’re coming to The University of Nottingham, or any university, the chances are you’re either dreading or really looking forward to Freshers’ Week. It’s designed to ease students into the uni lifestyle; in short, get drunk and make friends before the term starts and you can’t go on...

At the beginning of August, a small animation published by the BBC in 2014 caught the attention of an Infowars editor. (For those not in the know, Inforwars is an American radio show that is most famous for its enthusiastic and rage-fuelled host, Alex Jones). This led to a...

The story of James Damore, a Google technician who sent a memo to 40,000 of his colleagues detailing women’s supposed deficiencies for working in tech, has become a popular topic of millennial discussion. In his memo, he described the biological differences of women and men, highlighting these for women’s...

As if the Conservative Party needed more bad publicity after the lacklustre response to the Grenfell Tower tragedy, the DUP deal and the intense pressure regarding public sector pay, Anne Marie Morris, a Tory backbencher was recorded using a racially offensive term on Monday at a conference of Eurosceptics...

Repeatedly called out for her lack of personality, her “cold-fish” and “control freak” tendencies, Theresa May is rapidly becoming yet another infamous figure of British politics. There is however a dislike for our PM now that is characteristically different, and perhaps even stronger, in comparison to the dislike felt...