Politics and Power

Kari Gill Religion and politics are so closely entwined, and this has been fundamentally demonstrated throughout history. Conventional societies show us that many religious leaders are also modelling more secular and civil figures, highlighting the importance of religious beliefs when it comes to moral, ethical, and political decision-making. However, many

Marcus Jamnadas-Khoda Democracy dates back thousands of years. Believed to have begun in the city-state of Athens by Cleisthenes, [1] it originally comes from two Greek words: the word ‘demos’ meaning people, and the word ‘kratos’ meaning power. Therefore, democracy can be thought of as ‘power to the people’ – a

Anika Khanna What happens when people feel their voices are not being heard by the political and economic elites? The answer, it seems, is political populism. In recent years, we have seen a growing number of political movements that claim to represent the interests of regular people against the established

Ellie Regan MP Virginia Crosbie, a Welsh conservative MP, told BBC news reporters that she wears a stab proof vest when meeting constituents. After the violent murder of Crosbie’s colleague, Sir David Amess, who was stabbed multiple times in his local constituency surgery in 2021, she comments on how