Getting Figgy With It

Here's my latest satirical column for The Student. Bit silly but, as they say, the pun is mightier than the sword:

War by other means

Sanctions are often presented in the media as a peaceful alternative to war - using economic levers to pressurise countries into compliance.

John Pilger's documentary Paying the Price: Killing the Children of Iraq demonstrates how the structural violence of sanctions can be just as harmful, if not worse, than the actual violence of warfare.

Paying the Price Killing the Children of Iraq from John Pilger on Vimeo.

Death in Custody: Police Shame or 'Excited Delirium'?

Imagine the following scenario: a police officer’s home is broken into by a gang of eleven youths, who chase him into the street and beat him to death while his watching family beg them to stop. There would be national outrage, the perpetrators would face lengthy jail sentences and the Prime Minister would be on television talking about Britain’s broken society and feral gang culture.