Asian wet markets: brutal culinary norms that need to stop | Gabriel Baraldi
As the globe’s second biggest economy, it’s high time China joined the rest of the world in laying out tougher laws and regulation for animal rights, including a change in their brutal cultural norms. The suffering and unethical, unhygienic culinary habits have to change. Before we are forced to endure yet another destabilising global crisis.
Catholic Social Teaching, waning Anglicanism, and the antidote to purposeless secular education | Tom Colsy
Recently, standardisation has been the order of the day in the education sector; variety has been the enemy. With an ever more religiously diverse population, the tradition of passing down Christian values, at least in the overt sense, is one that has gradually withered in our institutions and schools. And this means we have also lost the wisdom that comes with it.
OC report: British foreign policy in a multipolar world | Dominic Lawson
Anyone looking to renew British society cannot overlook our foreign policy… The United Kingdom cannot repair its society internally if it is preoccupied with fighting off risks of foreign forces. Therefore, defining a new direction for the UK’s foreign policy must be a central focus of any political movement seeking to rejuvenate British culture and identity, especially in a time of seismic instability.
Libertarianism in dilemma | Ojel L. Rodriguez Burgos
A possible fallback position for a libertarian to take is to argue, that the Coronavirus is causing harm to individuals- breaking John Stuart Mill’s harm principle and breaching the limits of Nozick’s rights. However, how directly does an individual’s action harm another individual through transmission of a sentient virus? The answer to that question is certainly ambiguous, as political libertarians have been so struggling with finding a definitive one.
China: time to start asking questions - COVID-19 coverup | Dominique Samuels
In the midst of Chinese medical staff in Wuhan becoming suspected of contracting viral pneumonia which resulted in them being immediately quarantined, Wuhan hospitals also began to notice that a rising number of cases could not be linked to the Huanan Seafood Wholesale market. Only 27/41 patients identified had been exposed to the market according to the Lancet, evidencing the likelihood of human-to-human transmission. Three weeks after this became apparent to doctors, China contacted the World Health Organisation on December 31st.
More rights but less happiness: is now really the best time to be a woman? | Nelly Huszcza
While correlation doesn’t necessarily imply causation, married women have been proven to be generally happier than single women statistically. According to a report from the National Marriage Project, 47% of married women describe themselves as “highly satisfied”, as opposed to only 33% of single women. The same organisation also found that married couples enjoy better mental and physical health than singles.
No, Eugenicism against Down’s Syndrome babies is not acceptable | Jason Plessas
Under the 1967 Abortion Act, unborn babies with Down syndrome can be aborted right up until the end of a pregnancy, along with those with other non-fatal disabilities including cleft-lip palate and clubfoot. Heidi is the public face of Don’t Screen Us Out, who are mounting a legal challenge to end that discrepancy. “Five minutes before the baby comes down the birth canal, if the child is suspected to have Down’s, the baby could be aborted,” says her mother, Liz, despite people with Down’s being more than capable of living life “to the full”.
Britain’s drinking problem | Sam Hall
Britain has a booze problem. Specifically, a problem of quantity and frequency; when we’re sad, happy, and celebrating; at weddings, funerals, sports games; when our team loses and when they win. At home, in pubs and clubs; to celebrate the end of the week or even just one day. Fuelling this problem is the availability of cheap alcohol.
COVID-19: the need for community and breaking free from the buffered self | Ojel L. Rodriguez Burgos
The UK government’s refusal to timely adopt more stricter measures to combat the virus also makes it incumbent on all of us and our communities to protect ourselves. Taking the time to talk to an older person, helping a stranger, volunteering in the Church or an organization could look trivial to the action needed to deal with the crisis- but a thousand acts of random kindness… can be of enormous benefit to the whole of society.