The optimistic takeaway is that this election was a vote of confidence in the status quo. But perhaps the more realistic reading of the results is that neither party made a compelling case for why they deserved greater legislative control.
It is not just that the nationalistic plans of these people are morally reprehensible. A White ethnostate in the 21st century would fail. And it would fail spectacularly.
“Buildings inside the hills in Columbia”, is what internationally acclaimed rapper Kanye West tweeted when visiting Colombia, the country that served as inspiration for his Grammy-nominated album, The Life of Pablo. A tribute to the drug lord and narcoterrorist Pablo Escobar, the album hit more than three billion streams worldwide in its first year. Yet, West was unable to correctly name the country whose history he was profiting off. Like many around the world, his knowledge of Colombia was limited to a glorified version of kingpins and drug trafficking, void of research and fact-checking.
As tempting as it may be to attribute the party’s success to the rise in populism that has dominated Europe in recent years, Sinn Féin is more than an anti-establishment populist front. Instead, the party has reimagined itself into the first alternative vision for an Irish future that the country has seen since the War of Independence. Sinn Féin has broken Irish politics, radically and permanently, and there’s no going back for the Emerald Isle.
Malaysia’s racial policies have unfortunately failed to equitably redistribute wealth, and its tendency towards policy along racial lines must be reconsidered to address the real challenges of Malaysian society.
Kosovo faces a quandary, one in which the international community has happily involved itself. With the resulting instability comes diplomatic complications, questions of national identity, and the uncovering of boundless grief.
With the 2021 Tokyo Olympics in full swing and numerous notable Black women sidelined, the Olympic committee and all international athletic bodies must take swift action to abolish their discriminatory health regulations and all arbitrary rules that baselessly disadvantage Black female athletes.
Saying Biafra deserves to be independent, or even saying the opposite, is a bit like saying that the world deserves to keep spinning: How do you even begin to justify why?
As Theresa May moved from being a discredited prime minister to an MP for Maidenhead, she has assumed a role which no prime minister since Edward Heath has ever taken — being the Tory rebel leader.
