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600,000 Young People are Facing Homelessness in Retirement

Millennials continue to bear the brunt of Britain's Housing Crisis, and the situation is only set to get worse. Cut them a break, says Renew's Gwen Jones. Consigned to snowflake-dom by wider society, it’s fair to say Millennials - devotees to Love Island, Instagram aficionados and partial to a good Monzo account - are often tarnished with a fairly unflattering...

Published on 17 Jul 2019

Threats to Press Freedom Are Not New - And They're Hurting Democracy

As October 31st draws ever nearer, a clear vision for post-Brexit Britain is proving stubbornly illusive. So far it’s been all too easy to lay out what we most definitely do not want (backstop, anybody?) but coming up with an identity to carry us into the future is looking to be a great deal more difficult. So what’s it to...

Published on 15 Jul 2019

How Facial Recognition Technology Threatens Our Civil Liberties

Facial recognition technology is one of the many areas in which AI is changing our society. Here Gwen Jones explores the implications it has for our civil liberties. In the UK, we have become accustomed to the freedoms associated with a limited state. We vote as we please, we are free to speak our minds, and we maintain our innocence...

Published on 09 Jul 2019

Let's Talk About Oppression, Ms Widdecombe...

Another day, another moment where you can’t believe Anne Widdecombe isn’t an actual zombie from an apocalyptic Brexit-dystopian future sent to the present to kill us all, according to Renew member Paul Gerken. Strictly’s Anne Widdecombe has taken to the Brexit limelight like, as she may put it, an oppressed slave to a 17th-century transatlantic trading vessel. Shackled, bound, beaten,...

Published on 08 Jul 2019

You Wouldn't Trust Boris. Would You?

Boris Johnson as your therapist? That's what the United Kingdom is facing as a result of its Brexit breakdown. It’s 7pm on a Wednesday evening. You’ve been going through a bit of a crisis recently and need to talk to someone. Luckily, your friend has recommended you a new counsellor - a bit of a “rogue”, in her words, but...

Published on 05 Jul 2019

Northern Areas Braced for Huge Spending Cuts After Brexit

Despite being more sympathetic to Brexit, England's northern communities are facing spending cuts after Brexit. That's a problem.Between Leavers and Remainers, urbanites and country dwellers, old and young, rich and poor, those who put the milk in before(!) and after, it can often seem as though there is more that divides us in Britain than unites us. But in a...

Published on 04 Jul 2019

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600,000 Young People are Facing Homelessness in Retirement

Threats to Press Freedom Are Not New - And They're Hurting Democracy

How Facial Recognition Technology Threatens Our Civil Liberties

Let's Talk About Oppression, Ms Widdecombe...

You Wouldn't Trust Boris. Would You?

Northern Areas Braced for Huge Spending Cuts After Brexit