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Sensationalism as Erosion of Activist Legitimacy

(Surveillance Alcove / Performance Wing) This post is an example of digital sensationalism masquerading as political commentary. It takes a complex issue, the policing of protest language in the UK, and collapses it into a conspiratorial narrative designed to provoke outrage rather than illuminate truth. Its claims are sweeping, unverified, and emotionally engineered, relying on fear,…

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When Violence Disappears: Mis‑Recorded Harm and the Silencing of Women

Abstract This essay examines how violence against women is routinely misrecorded within criminal justice, health, and state systems, leading to a profound underestimation of domestic abuse and gendered harm. By analysing the ways incidents are categorised, such as domestic assaults logged as “knife crime” or suicides linked to coercive control recorded without context, the piece argues that…

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🇬🇧 Patriotism, Memory, and the Battle for Britain’s Story

“Watching Zia Yusuf on Good Morning Britain this morning, defending compulsory flags and portraits in schools, it became painfully clear that Britain is not debating education, it is debating identity.” There are moments in public life when you can feel the ground shift, not because something new has happened, but because something old has returned wearing a fresh coat of paint. This morning’s…

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A City Made and Remade: Liverpool, Culture, Capitalism, and the Stories We Choose to Keep

I first learned about King John’s role in Liverpool not from a history book. I discovered it from a text I read at university during Liverpool’s Capital of Culture years. It was one of those slim volumes that floated around modules on Culture and Capitalism. I can’t remember the exact title now, or even the author with certainty, but I remember the feeling of it. It was the first time I realized…

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The Hidden Cost of Misclassification in Domestic Violence Data

Abstract This essay examines how violence against women is routinely misrecorded within criminal justice, health, and state systems, leading to a profound underestimation of domestic abuse and gendered harm. By analysing the ways incidents are categorised, such as domestic assaults logged as “knife crime” or suicides linked to coercive control recorded without context, the piece argues that…