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Niamh Brook - Writer Note: This article contains spoilers from Series 12 of Doctor Who Read the previous part in this series here . Moving forward, I jumped to episode 5, Fugitive of the Judoon. This episode was good. And for season 12 having a good episode felt like watching the best picture at the Oscars. Telling the story of Ruth, a tour guide from Gloucester who actually turns out to be a different version of the Doctor on the run from the Judoon and Galafreians. Jo Martin’s take on the Doctor was fantastic. Her costume vibrant matched her carefree and sassy attitude. I finished the episode somewhat disheartened that Jo Martin’s Doctor was not the one that graces our screens every week. The episode had good pacing, a fab mystery and also the brief return of Captain Jack. The episode was good fun and I will definitely find myself one lazy sunday popping it on and enjoying it all over again. It must be said however, that the best aspect of the episode was the mystery surrounding

Niamh Brook - Writer Note: This article contains spoilers from Series 12 of Doctor Who.  Doctor Who has been a huge part of my life since I was 5 years old. I remember watching New Earth with my mum for the first time and being absolutely blown away. Witnessing David Tennant and Billie Piper in all their camp glory was astonishing and from that moment I never missed an episode. It became my life. Toys, annuals and birthday parties; I was obsessed. However, during the Clara era of the show I noticed a sharp decline in episode quality. I put the blame on  Stephen Moffat running out of ideas and being too stubborn to give up his title as showrunner. I was ecstatic to find out that Broadchurch’s Chris Chibnall would be taking over the raines and that his Doctor would be a woman. Having a female doctor is a major shift for the show. The change means a lot to people all over the work, myself included. You have never seen an 18 year old fangirl harder at a family show than I when I firs

Matthew Hodder - Writer Taurek’s Should the Numbers Count? argues that we could flip a coin when deciding whether to save one person (A), or five (B,C,D,E,F). I shall synthesise Taurek’s argument with help from Parfit, from which I shall begin an analysis. I shall find that the biggest challenge to Taurek’s argument is the premise that numbers morally count for nothing. I shall argue that the numbers do not matter when we shift our perspective from loss-to, to loss-of persons. I begin with a brief exposition of Taurek, starting with two premises provided by Parfit (1978, p. 291):  “[I]: In the absence of special obligations, the only moral reason to prevent an outcome is that it would be worse than its alternative.  [II]: The deaths of the five would not be a worse outcome than the death of David.”  The more controversial aspect of Taurek’s argument is that there exists no morally relevant difference between saving one stranger or five strangers, since he holds “no

Daniel Priestley - Writer & Editor In this three part series I will explore the current proposals to reforming Welsh local democracy and consider how they could be changed to effectively reinvigorate local democracy in Wales. If the current system we are using is failing and the proposals from the Welsh Government are flawed then what reforms should be brought in instead? I believe the best option is the mandated rollout of Single Transferable Vote for local elections in Wales. STV is a proportional representation voting system that uses preferential voting and multi-member wards to produce an outcome with less wasted votes and a higher degree of proportionality. John Stuart Mill, an early advocate for the system, believed that STV was the best voting system to provide accurate and localised representation for voters (Zvulun, 2012). STV as a system can be used to tackle a lack of diversity in our local politics. Whilst STV itself “may do nothing to promote the election of

Daniel Priestley - Writer & Editor In this three part series I will explore the current proposals to reforming Welsh local democracy and consider how they could be changed to effectively reinvigorate local democracy in Wales. Click here to read the previous part in the series. The Local Government and Elections (Wales) Bill (LGE(W)B) is a new piece of legislation currently passing through the Welsh Assembly, introduced on the 18th of November 2019. The Bill will be the “biggest change” in the Welsh electoral system for 50 years” (Eichler, 2019) including reforms surrounding changing the voting system, running electoral pilots and lowering the voting age. The Bill “aims to reinvigorate local democracy in Wales.” (Welsh Government, 2019). So how does the Local Government and Elections (Wales) Bill seek to achieve this? Part 1 of the LGE(W)B provides for the introduction of two available voting systems for local councils: FPTP and STV. Put simply this represents a choice betwee

Daniel Priestley - Writer & Editor In this three part series I will explore the current proposals to reforming Welsh local democracy and consider how they could be changed to effectively reinvigorate local democracy in Wales. Turnout in Welsh Local elections has historically been low, with the 42.4% voter turnout in the 2017 Welsh Local Elections being representative of the norm (Electoral Commission, 2017). Results are also incredibly disproportionate; in the 2017 Welsh Local Elections Labour received 30% of votes yet won 37% of the seats (The Elections Centre, 2017) showing a disconnect between the electorate and the results. Finally, gender and ethnic diversity is lacking; 28% of councillors are women (BBC, 2017) and ERS research shows that as many as 90.6 % of councillors are from a White British background (Blair & Mathias, 2018). Progress on this has been incredibly slow with the proportion of female councillors only increasing by 6% in the 13 years preceding 2017 (St