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  “ I believe that the war on drugs is a tragically misplaced use of resources – an immoral venture that produces far more suffering than it alleviates. David Harsanyi. Last week the home secretary Suella Braverman tweeted about new proposals to target organised crime, and I quote. “ We cannot let criminal gangs profit from devastation. Great work is being done to tackle organised crime, including by @GMPolice. And I've announced a national crackdown. Take out the gangs; stop the drugs, violence and antisocial behaviour. We have been here before, it's like every home secretary is so arrogant that they think they are the one who through being tough on crime and criminality that they can end crime and criminality, even Margaret Thatcher, the most hard faced PM to ever haunt No 10 had a crack at it and failed, but as history shows, this approach is nothing more than posturing, in the 50 odd years since the 1971 misuse of drugs act was introduced, the...

  At the time of writing this the Prime Minister of the UK is Rishi Sunak, whose parents are Tanzanian and Kenyan, who happens to be the richest man to ever occupy Number 10 Downing street, for many he is an example of what the son of immigrants can achieve with the right education and the right motivation, he has after all reached the highest office in the land, but how is that possible in a conservative party that has been moving evermore right wing for over a decade. We tend to associate political parties that are further to the right as the least welcoming to ethnic minorities, we have seen in the past far right political groups such as The National Front, The BNP, and EDL having an agenda based around Immigration, and more recently UKIP have had the same strong views on Immigration, but because of their anti EU stance, and making immigration just one part of their manifesto, they seemed to negate the risk of any serious accusations of racism on an organisational level, ...

  A few years ago, I was on a train from Birmingham to Leeds, it was around 5:30, surprisingly not particularly busy for rush hour, There were enough seats and it was as chilled a vibe as could be for a rush hour service, across the aisle and a seat in front of me were a bunch of young people laughing and drinking and generally having a good time not in an obnoxious way, but just with enough merriment for the other passengers to notice how much fun they were having. I would say they were university students, they were about that age and not the usual piss heads that you would expect from, well me when I was that age. A woman sat across the aisle from them leaned across and asked them “what are you celebrating” one of the group, a big lad in a rugby shirt, gulped down the swig of canned G&T and without missing a beat replied “Just being young”. To this day, I have not heard a more perfect answer to a question, why shouldn't you celebrate being young? Youth is the greatest g...

  I want to be clear from the off that I have nothing against the band members of The 1975, I think they are very talented musicians that do something not many bands can do, Originality, when you hear The 1975, you know what you are listening to, haunting vocals and an other worldly instrumental arrangement that can transport the listener to another place. But still I will skip them on spotify if they are in a playlist, so what is the problem? In a nutshell its me, I am the problem, you see when you listen to music, no mater if it's Vivaldi's Four seasons, Even flow by Pearl Jam, or the Chronic by Dr Dre, great music is not about technical ability, great writing or any of that stuff, what makes a great piece of music is the way it makes you feel. The music we listen to is a part of who we are, because its n expression of our emotions, When I have a bad day, and I have the anger building up in me, a little slipknot is the pressure valve, I can go nuts for a few minuets, and...