Rachel Lewis

The next US Presidential election is less than a year away, so the Republicans need a candidate. For British observers, this is usually an amusing time as we watch a group of ill-informed cretins compete to prove themselves most ignorant/popular, however you see it. Choosing between a group of...

The depravity of modern slavery persists around the world. In 2014 the International Labour Organisation estimated that globally 21 million people were victims of forced labour, which generated $150 billion of profit in the global private economy. With the consequences of Climate Change displacing increasing numbers of people around...

On Monday evening, BBC presenter Clive Myrie looked at his watch, declared it to be after the watershed and promptly described Tyson Fury as a ‘dickhead’. This was an unusual move for a BBC presenter, as their normal remit does not allow them to use descriptions any more insulting...

‘Somehow, this has become routine,’ Barack Obama said wearily of the Oregon school shooting in October. ‘The reporting is routine. My response here at this podium ends up becoming routine… We have become numb to this.’ The President of the United States was reduced to reacting to gun violence...

This week on David Cameron’s crusade to fulfil his somewhat sordid desire to become the Iron Lady that this country deserves: matters turn away from the Tories often criticised domestic affairs and become international. In the wake of the largest migrant crisis since WW2 and the abhorrent terror attacks in...

Despite desperate warnings and distressing premonitions about an apocalyptic society rife with indestructible bacteria plaguing the news, it’s a matter which very few of us pay any attention to. Buzzfeed reports that fireworks claim fourteen times as many lives as terrorism; we have a 1/14,000,000 chance of dying in a...

In a world where the very same bankers who sent our economic system into turmoil also receive million pound salaries, it is surprisingly easy to slip into a mindset of tacit acceptance. It is testament to the ingrained inequality in our society, that we stand by as the glue which...