By Kasper McLeish 01/02/26 Britain should talk itself up more on the world stage said Prime Minister Sir Kier Starmer after returning from a four-day trade delegation with senior government ministers and UK business leaders in Beijing and Shanghai. The trip, which saw Starmer meet with Chinese president Xi Jinping on Thursday, was the first…
Corbyn and Sultana’s new left wing party could present a serious threat to labour. Has it taken the right strategy with its launch? On the 24th of July, former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn and former Labour MP Zarah Sultana launched their much-anticipated new left wing party. The political project will go by ‘Your Party’ -…
Below is a concept piece I have made about a fictional brand – Ichtos. Click the file below to download the higher quality version. The landscape photos used are stock images and the other photos are taken from the website of COS, linked here: https://www.cos.com.
The essay below was completed in my final year of Univerisity. It examines the absurdism in Lewis Caroll’s most famous work which, I argue, is a reactionary work challenging the idea that literature can provide clear-cut messages about right and wrong. Consider the significance of fictiveness in relation to one or more texts. Possible responses…
The piece below is my response to an essay prompt that asked students to evaluate a chosen film’s rotten tomatoes rating. I, Robot deserves worse than its average (56%) rating. The issues with the movie I, Robot (Alex Proyas, 2004) are numerous but, in their multiplicity, they can be summed up effectively as stemming from…
Collectivist Science Fiction: A Brief Look at Iain M. Banks’ ‘Culture’ and Ursula Le Guin’s ‘Ekumen’. Kasper Ian McLeish University of Bristol What is Science Fiction? Anybody vaguely familiar with the genre, literary or cinematic, will be able to answer this question. However, in asking exactly what Science Fiction (hereafter: SF), this study will wade…
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