Society

Originally published in The Cambridge Student. What is freedom? Is it the right to choose and determine all actions which we make, or the capacity to gain from actions which we partake in? What is the role of community in our understanding of freedom? For a community must have a radiant centre, a light which shines through all people involved. This needs an invisible altar with which all inside worship. An agreement of the common good which assists the vibrancy of encounters with one another. There has to be a realisation of our joint and united endeavour in our understanding of ourselves. But to what extent have freedom and community become entirely separate? We look at our current circumstances against the backdrop of VE day. A time of remembrance of joint loss and suffer...

Undoubtedly, the world has taken an ‘unprecedented’ (in the words of every leading politician recently) turn towards the dystopian narratives we’ve grown up seeing in TV and film. The world is turning on its head with even Britney Spears coming out as a comrade, too. In the past few days I’ve been seeing the same people who rallied for Boris in the recent General Election now circulating petitions for equal pay and protection of their rights as workers. I want to say that I’m surprised, but ultimately, I’m not. Essentially, the world has found a new enemy, the new coronavirus, and is yet to realise that its previous enemy, socialism, is actually their friend. If anything, capitalism is the disease. It’s true, this is probably one of the biggest collective struggles we’ll ever have to f...