COVID-19 and free speech
Ciara Boyle explores societies’ reactions to the pandemic and its impact on free speech
Ciara Boyle explores societies’ reactions to the pandemic and its impact on free speech
Ripe ‘n’ ready but never really ripe or ready avocados on supermarket shelves. New bougie Ethiopian-Bosnian-Plant-based-Fusion food truck parking down the road. The bewildering stroll through an Asian supermarket searching for the eight poxy ingredients needed for the ‘quick and easy’ recipe you saw on Instagram.
Universities across the globe are actively decolonising their curriculums off the back of recent movements and realisations. Trinity College Dublin has launched a two-year-long investigation into its historic links to slavery and colonialism in an attempt to free itself from its deep-rooted systems of colonial oppression. But how can this be achieved?
“Whether you’re a libertarian Elon Musk fetishiser or a lefty eco-socialist living in a commune, the fact of the matter is our economic system, in its current manifestation, isn’t working for us” Ciaran Boyle writes.