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Backbench UK (January 2020 - March 2022)

Politics, news, opinion, culture, society.

Unfortunately links to these are no longer available as the website has been taken down and the domain has expired. However Violet has PDF copies of all of these if you wish to sample them.

  • A Progressive Monarchy is Impossible

  • Covid-19 Has Exposed a Chronic Underfunding of the NHS

  • Coronavirus has Challenged the Relationship Between Science and Politics

  • Joe Biden and Kamala Harris Don’t Need to be Radical, Just Electable

  • Climate Change is Real But so is Classism

  • We Need to Decolonise the National Curriculum

  • If Biden Wins, Will Trump Accept the Election Result?

  • England’s Second Lockdown: An Avoidable Disaster

  • We Should be Cautiously Optimistic about Biden’s Victory

  • Covid Will Change the Way We Work - But Only Some will Benefit

  • Keeping Schools Open will Directly Impact Public Health

  • Did the Government Do ‘Everything’ They Could?

  • What are Local Elections and Why Do They Matter?

  • Will Keir Starmer Get Labour’s Message Across When it Matters?

FWRD Axis (2020-21)

Political reporting, news, opinion

The Indiependent (2020)

Lifestyle, health, books, poetry, first-person experience

Empoword Journalism (2020)

Medium (2020-present)

Books, reading, lifestyle, mental health, politics, self, history, society, self-improvement etc

First-person essays, opinions, listicles, deep dives, how to’s