“…the chambers I applied to said, ‘Look, we like you, we think you’d fit in here. But we hired a black guy last year and we’re not going to do it two years in a row’ .. and there I was denied a very basic opportunity to secure a job simply because of my race, because I was black”.

COVID-19 has disrupted all areas of commercial life and there is no exception within the private equity (PE) industry as it is one of the fundamental pillars of the financial sector. Nonetheless, the industry has managed to navigate its way through the pandemic in a relatively successful way, foreshadowing a promising future.

The government’s recent strategy for tackling obesity calls for more forthright public awareness campaigns, based on the findings of various NHS and Public Health England reports. How does such a proclamation play out in the climate of distrust fostered by the government’s volatile pandemic strategy? And how can the government ensure its warnings are received as credible rather than questionable?

Is this proposal an implicit acknowledgement of the futility of our overpopulated prisons? Are there better ways of dealing with low-risk offenders? The pandemic has clearly underlined a surplus of prisoners in UK prisons, many of whom pose no tangible threat to society - so is it just to hold them in prison, costing taxpayers thousands and limiting their freedom?

Modern-day corruption exists at unacceptable levels across the globe, with many corrupt law firms going unpunished for providing services to criminal parties. Concerted worldwide efforts at solving the issue of corruption, such as the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation’s Convention, have not had their desired impact.

The recent decision of the American Ninth Circuit judges that YouTube has not illegally censored conservative content on its platform has been largely overlooked, despite the major ramifications it has for freedom of speech online and therefore democracy.

After nearly 50 years of an outdated divorce process, we are witnessing a revolutionary shift in the way a marriage can be terminated.

Abolition is asking for a reimaging and restructuring of how we see our interactions with one another. It asks us to remove the limitations on our imaginations and create a new world for all.

In 2018 the Court of Appeal declared that Uber drivers are to be classified as ‘workers’ under the Employment Rights Act 1996, reaffirming previous rulings from employment tribunals. This definition was incredibly important as it meant their drivers, after being previously considered as freelance,   would now be afforded the same rights and statutory protections that all ‘workers’ enjoy, most importantly the national minimum wage, holiday and sick pay. 

Time and again, case after case, vulnerable women have been exploited and manipulated by their male partners, but justice has yet to be reaped. Victims of domestic abuse have been systematically failed by institutions that underestimate the complexity of the issue.