Bread for all, and roses too: Universal Basic Income and post-pandemic Britain
Writing by Luke Brotherdale Smith. Illustration by Phoebe McGowan. ‘Not at once; but woman is the mothering element in the world and her...
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Sep 9, 20205 min read
Inequality laid bare beneath a rhetoric of equality
Writing by Ali Gavin. Illustration by Polly Burnay. Far from putting socio-political issues and general agitation on hold, the ongoing...
Sep 9, 20203 min read
On the danger of performative activism
Writing by Rachel Flynn. Illustration by Polly Burnay. It’s now been 107 days since the murder of community worker George Floyd and 177...
Sep 9, 20205 min read
How has COVID-19 affected our graduates?
Writing and survey by Hannah Rothmann. Illustration by Hazel Laing. Many of us at The Rattlecap will be graduating next year or in the...
Sep 9, 20204 min read
Tear them down! How do we deal with Britain’s colonial and slave-trading past?
Writing by Fairuz Farhoud. Illustration by Polly Burnay. The tearing down of the statue of Edward Colston on the 7th of June in Bristol...
Sep 9, 20205 min read
Who do we really silence? JK Rowling and Cancel Culture
Writing by Harriet Steele, Illustration by Emily Donnelly Over the last couple of months JK Rowling has made her anti-trans position very...
Aug 13, 20208 min read
Tackling Elitism
Written by Daniel Geen. Tackling Elitism is not another university society, nor is it merely a support structure for working-class and...
Jun 25, 20205 min read
A crisis of democracy?
Writing: Will Lewallen In 1975 the Trilateral Commission, comprised of liberal elites from the three main global powers at the time:...
Jun 4, 20205 min read
A Collection of Anti-Racism Resources #BLM
Written by Anushka Kumar Image from Vox.com Reading everything on social media, it can be hard to know where to start and how to help....
May 31, 20204 min read
Social Care during Covid-19 exposes the failing British unitary state
Writing: Vaishnavi Ramu I’ve worked in social care for over a year and a half now. During this period, I learnt a great deal about...
May 31, 20204 min read
Eye off the Ball?
How Boris Johnson’s handling of the coronavirus crisis can be interpreted through the lens of Ian Robertson’s The Winner Effect Writing:...
Mar 19, 20205 min read
Anti-Asian racism in the wake of Corona
Racism is not an acceptable response to this crisis Writing: Anushka Kumar A twenty year old student walks into a pharmacy in Edinburgh...
Jan 29, 20204 min read
The worrying commercialisation of Edinburgh's public spaces
Writing: Roz Biggs There is in Edinburgh today a growing concern over the privatisation and commodification of the city’s public space....
Jan 20, 20204 min read
Interview with Revive, the coalition for grouse moor reform
Writing: Max Hunter The Rattlecap sat down with Max Wiszniewski, the press officer for Revive- a coalition of groups campaigning for the...
Jan 17, 20207 min read
Experiences of South Korean women survivors must not be whitewashed by the #MeToo Movement
Writing: Shin Woo-Kim Illustration: Dani Rothmann Content Warning: This article contains mentions of sexual abuse. The US is talked about...
Jan 12, 20207 min read
The Russian in the room
Writing: Will Lewallen It seems that one of the biggest issues that we faced in our election was not determined by which side of the...
Jan 12, 20203 min read
Letter from Madrid: The worrying rise of Spain's far-right
Writing: Paola Valentina We’re living in scary times. As the future of the UK is kept dangling by a thin string tied precariously to the...
Jan 12, 20203 min read
Banking the Unbanked
Writing: Justin White What would you do without a debit card? Pay with cash, easily done. So you would wait in the long line at Lidl...
Jan 12, 20203 min read
Labour's decision to ban Private Schools was Real Progress towards making Education Fair
Editor's note: this article was written in October 2019. Look out for our next issue for diagnosis and discussion of December's general...
Jan 12, 20203 min read
Corbyn's Brexit position
Editor's note: this article was written in October 2019. Look out for our next issue for diagnosis and discussion of December's general...
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