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The Social Review Podcast Episode 56: We Can’t Consent to This

This week, Jasper & Morgan speak to Eve from We Can’t Consent to This, which campaigns for legal change to how men who kill and injure women during sex are prosecuted. Eve outlines the modern history of the rough sex defence, the stories of women killed by their partners, and future plans for the group – as well as lessons from running…

Ideas, Policy, Possibilities, Realities 21 hours ago

The Golden Age of Cycling?

Photo Credit: Tejvan Pettinger In the U.K, bicycle use peaked in 1952 and has been in permanent decline since. We are outflanked by our European neighbours when it comes to levels of cycling, yet the British and the bike are not natural antagonists. Certain media outlets and politicians may help to drive such attitudes from drivers, but this largely stems from being…

Ideas, Possibilities 31st July 2020

Coronavirus, Individualism and Social Solidarity

Picture Credit: M J Richardson After a brief hiatus, politics is back in full flow. Normal disputes have replaced the relative unity of the first weeks of lockdown. But we can be sure that post-pandemic politics will not look the same as the politics we left behind. The coronavirus pandemic has impacted the lives of millions of people and will undoubtedly inform…

Podcasts, Policy, Realities, Within Westminster 31st July 2020

The Social Review Podcast Episode 55: Weight of the Nation

To discuss the government’s new anti-obesity campaign, Jasper talks to TSR writer Liam Stewart about his essay on the measures for the website. They unpick their personal histories with food and weight, the socio-economic complexity of obesity, how bodies are socially judged, the internal tensions on the left between individual and collective responsibility of weight, and much more (CN: food, eating, eating…

Policy, Realities, Within Westminster 30th July 2020

Boris Johnson should shape up, gastric bands and calorie labels in restaurants are not going to solve obesity in the UK

Photo Credit: IJClark My relationship with food has always been a bit toxic. When I was a child I was a fussy eater. As a teen I binge ate. Happily, things today are much better, but I still have days where I binge eat, or get anxious around drinking alcohol or eating certain foods. I was about eight when other children In…

Ideas, Podcasts, Realities, Within Westminster 23rd July 2020

The Social Review Podcast Episode 54: Not the end of ideology

Jasper meets Dr Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite (Lecturer in 20th Century British History at UCL and Co-Editor of Renewal: A Journal for Social Democracy) to chat about how old ideologies and orthodoxies continue to shape the Conservative Party, continued narratives of the undeserving poor, who gets to define what is political and what is not, the increasing complexity of class strata and much more.…