politics
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Trump is a mould that can’t be so easily scrubbed away.
If you’re a political nerd like me, elections are always an exciting affair: they’re an excuse to pull an all-nighter and hunker down in the living room, splitting your attention between the holy trinity of the television, laptop and phone. This year didn’t quite go to plan. I settled in on the settee and cracked…
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Book Club – ‘This Is Not Propaganda’
It’s been a while since the first entry into the inertia book club, but we are back with a cracker that looks at modern use of propaganda and disinformation. We’d highly recommend this book to anyone with an interest in politics or Russia, as it is a large focus throughout. The full title of the…
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The internet is dead. Long live the internet.
From a Scottish perspective, I can’t imagine a place so culturally opposite, so fundamentally different in weather and attitude than the 90s in Silicon Valley. The place served as a focal point for big ideas, with tech visionaries and computer wizzes swarming to the San Francisco Bay Area and dreaming up all kinds of software-based…
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Media Manipulation and the Migrant Crisis
The BBC and Sky News have reached a new low last week, preying on migrants crossing the English Channel in the hunt for a news story. In the footage posted by both outlets there is a clear cat and mouse scenario that is played out with a complete absence of self awareness on the parts…
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Memory Boxes
Back in June a cancelled graduation had me packing up all of the possessions that I’d accumulated during my time at university, as I waved goodbye to my King Street flat and solemnly boxed up all the posters, gig tickets and other wee trinkets that I had hoarded to remind me of my years as…
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Lockdown 2.0: Aberdeen
I recently experienced a phenomenon that I cannot recall ever previously occurring in all of my life. This past week I heard Aberdeen, my lifelong love-hate affair, referred to during BBC Newsbeat on Radio 1. As menial as this may seem it did catch me off guard as usually to hear mention of Aberdeen on…
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