Category: Redbrick
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Watch Out Deliveroo: The Gig Economy Should Fear the Power of Uber’s Organising
For six years, those working for the taxi giant Uber have been battling the company’s exploitative business model which, until now, had declined the fact that they legally counted as employees. Previously, Uber had maintained that their drivers were self-employed and therefore were not entitled to the bare minimum of workers’ rights, including a minimum…
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Outsourcing the Asylum System: The Cost of the Tories Putting Lives in the Hands of Business
Content Warning: This article mentions genocide, self-harm, sexual assault. During the Second Anglo-Boer War, the British Army set up refugee camps in South Africa to house migrant and civilian families. As more and more people became housed in these camps, the living conditions of those within them worsened. The refugees and migrants, mostly women and children,…
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Queen’s Consent: The Constitutional Monarchy is at Odds with Democracy
The early ‘noble lie’ as to how monarchs acquire their mandate to rule was through ‘divine right.’ A monarch was believed to be chosen by God and whose rule was therefore unquestionable. Evidently, belief in divine right no longer does any leg work to legitimate their existence, instead we have a constitutional monarchy. The existence…
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The UK’s Transphobia Problem
Content Warning: This article includes discussion of transphobia Emancipatory discourse around the world has been increasingly punctuated by the subject of trans rights. As inclusivity increases in media, entertainment and celebrity culture you would not be blamed to think that material conditions for trans and non-binary folk are getting better and not worse. However, the…