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The Russian Influence on Brexit: Decoding the Russia Report

Renew member and candidate for Hackney North and Stoke Newington in the 2019 general election, Haseeb Ur-Rehman, argues that the Russia Report damningly reveals just how influential a part Russia has played within UK politics. The Russia Report is a peculiar document, which obfuscates, skirts, insinuates and in some places almost sarcastically detracts from the Brexit issue; the latter...

Published on 30 Jul 2020

Why weren’t critical facts published?

Chris Lovejoy poses the question: how can we help the UK resolve this crisis before its too late? 400 million people in highly developed countries don’t know why they have suffered so badly from the coronavirus. The failure to publish relevant data in the USA and UK made it difficult for opposition parties, and the media, to rigorously scrutinise...

Published on 30 Jul 2020

Gene editing - dicing with the future of our food

Draeyk van der Horn, Renew's spokesperson on Food and Farming, delves into some of the concerns surrounding gene editing. New genetic modification techniques (NGMTs) such as “gene editing” present ethical concerns as well as economic and environmental ones. There are a number of unresolved questions and concerns. There is an overwhelming flaw in the claim that gene editing of food...

Published on 16 Jul 2020

Has democracy died in the United Kingdom?

Renew's Terrance Knot investigates the demise of democracy in the UK. The term "democracy" first appeared in ancient Greek political and philosophical thought in the city-state of Athens during classical antiquity. The word comes from demos, "common people" and kratos, "strength". Led by Cleisthenes, Athenians established what is generally considered the first democracy in 508–507 BC. Since then, many countries have...

Published on 09 Jul 2020

The UK has a moral obligation to protect the rights of its former colony

Ross Orchard, who is interning with Renew, argues why the UK has a moral obligation to protect its people in Hong Kong. It’s no secret that Beijing’s harsh authoritarian regime has cast an increasingly imposing shadow over the liberties of Hong Kong’s citizens in the past year, but is China’s new security law the final nail in the coffin...

Published on 06 Jul 2020

The government refuses to extend Brexit despite coronavirus fears

Friend of Renew, Zach Mayford, tells us his views on leaving the EU. On Monday 15th of June, the EU and the UK government agreed not to extend the Brexit transition period: Britain will leave the European Union on the 31st of December. In a joint statement, the first ministers of Scotland and Wales, Nicola Sturgeon and Mark Drakeford, condemned...

Published on 02 Jul 2020

RENEW BLOG

The Russian Influence on Brexit: Decoding the Russia Report

Why weren’t critical facts published?

Gene editing - dicing with the future of our food

Has democracy died in the United Kingdom?

The UK has a moral obligation to protect the rights of its former colony

The government refuses to extend Brexit despite coronavirus fears