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The Iran Crisis is a Taste of Brexit Britain's Future

Britain is lost at sea with little hope of being rescued, says Renew's Gwen Jones.Politics is getting noisier. It’s unfashionable nowadays for politicians not to provide an immediate response to events, whether it be glittering praise or seething condemnation. The new politics is loud, brazen and frankly outrageous, and the stately reservation of yesterday seems almost entirely obsolete. It’s hardly...

Published on 24 Jul 2019

Brace for Impact as the Brexit Asteroid Approaches

Renew Regional Coordinator and prospective parliamentary candidate David Burling gives his take on the damage that Brexit could do to our country.As October 31st looms large in the window of Command Module “Brexit”, a tricky balance needs to be struck by our leaders to ensure that our country re-enters reality safely. We mustn't crash through the atmosphere into eternal inertia,...

Published on 22 Jul 2019

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

RENEW BLOG

The Iran Crisis is a Taste of Brexit Britain's Future

Brace for Impact as the Brexit Asteroid Approaches

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...