text: Inclusivity is still being lauded but, I’m sorry, it just doesn’t cut the mustard. That is, unless we radically redefine it. It was all well and good to introduce political inclusivism as a new-age stepping stone to a happier tomorrow in the post-war era but in reality there was no chance of that happening. Multiculturalism, […]
  A.C. Stark
  August 5, 2020
  Politics & Public Debate
  Inclusivism, Inequality, Multiculturalism, Racism, Systematic Racism, Trojan Horse
  Right Now They Might Just Listen
  If we pander to notions that we shouldn’t sound the climate emergency alarm during inconvenient times or in perceivably inappropriate spaces – whether it be now, during the global Covid-19 epidemic, or in any other public time and space – then we neglect to act with the urgency that the issue of climate change so […]
  A.C. Stark
  March 27, 2020
  Politics & Public Debate
  Climate Change, Climate Crisis, Climate Emergency, Corona, Covid-19, Crisis, Epidemic, Local Government, Pandemic, Virus
  When Governments Lie Citizens Fly
  When it comes to climate change the Government lies to us, but we also lie to ourselves. Again and again we are told by the honourable conservative political elite that the UK is a world leader in the fight against climate change. Many of us clearly realise that this neat slogan is often furtively utilised […]
  A.C. Stark
  November 19, 2019
  Nature & the Environment, Politics & Public Debate
  Climate Change, Climate Emergency, Conservative, Flight Free, Flight Free 2020, Flight Free UK, Government, UK
  A critical examination of the duty to promote and protect Fundamental British Values (FBV) in education.
  Rationale The promotion of British values in schools is a rather contentious issue, not least because teachers are legally obligated to promote and protect ‘fundamental British values’ (FBVs) (DfE,2014,p.5). I witnessed this in practice, whilst working as a Learning Support Assistant, where a Year 7 English class was explicitly taught about Britishness as an independent […]
  A.C. Stark
  November 11, 2019
  Politics & Public Debate
  Brexit, britain, British Education, British Values, Fundamental British Values, Ofsted, Teaching, Trojan Horse
  The Overpopulation Myth
  Just because Thanos erased half of all life in order to bring balance to the universe it doesn’t mean that everyone who is concerned about overpopulation is also an eco-fascist beset on subjugation and murder. It is quite probable that they’re simply anxious about the climate and ecological breakdown and see overpopulation as a legitimate […]
  A.C. Stark
  May 6, 2019
  Nature & the Environment, Philosophy & Ethics, Politics & Public Debate
  avengers, Capitalism, Climate Change, end game, Environment, Nature, Overpopulation, Philosophy, Politics, population, thanos
  First, Rebel Against Yourself.
  In Owen Jones’ recent interview video with Extinction Rebellion, Roger Hallam criticises the political ‘left’ as having been perpetually dishonest about what economic action is required to mitigate the climate breakdown and what cultural changes this will necessitate. He contends that the ‘left’ have become so embroiled, so entrenched in the (conceptually politically right-wing) neoliberal […]
  A.C. Stark
  April 28, 2019
  Nature & the Environment, Politics & Public Debate
  Capitalism, Climate Breakdown, Climate Change, extinction rebellion, Global Warming, Neoliberalism
  The International Extinction Rebellion
  I really am sorry about the inconvenience, Mr Commuter – we all are. Yet, dare I say, your personal inconvenience is a small price to pay in order to prevent the collapse of civilisation. ﻿
  A.C. Stark
  April 19, 2019
  Nature & the Environment, Politics & Public Debate
  Climate Change, david attenborough, ER, extinction, extinction rebellion, Global Warming, rebellion, roger hallam, XR
  The Greatest Gift that I Possess
  Everywhere I look I see countless miniature empires. This makes sense when one considers the many necrophilous sectarians ostensibly populating Britain, as their morals seem to be founded (if Brexit is anything to go by) in the delusional glory of this little island’s historically imperial sovereignty. Small-man syndrome is a natural phenomenon, even at the state […]
  A.C. Stark
  October 11, 2018
  Philosophy & Ethics, Politics & Public Debate
  Capitalism, Colonialism, Derren Brown, Empire, Environment, Ethics, Imperialism, Neoliberalism, Politics, Stoicism, Virtue, Wealth
  Climate Change: The Elephant in the Room
  The elephant in the room is trampling all over us. Yet we’re still living, thinking and talking as though it were not there. Climate change is so inescapable, so entangled within the definition of our politico-economic system, that to explore it, to educate about it, is to create a wide-spread existential crisis wherein the persistence […]
  A.C. Stark
  September 8, 2017
  Nature & the Environment, Politics & Public Debate
  Capitalism, Climate Change, Democracy, Environment, Global Warming, Green Party, Injustice, Nature, Politics
  Populism: Activism’s Evil Twin
  A word has been washing around in the media, spilling from the plump and pouted lips of politicians and journalists everywhere, with a meaning that is surreptitiously adapted at every convenient opportunity. It’s as though they’re all in on the act, utilising the word to make specious claims about things which in reality they have no factually-based […]
  A.C. Stark
  February 15, 2017
  Politics & Public Debate
  Activism, Brexit, Capitalism, David Cameron, Democracy, Donald Trump, Hitler, Politics, Populism, Trump