Rohan Banerjee
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Rohan is currently a final year Politics undergraduate at the University of York, focusing particularly on the democratization of states and governing the global economy. Follow him on Twitter @RBanerjee23.

Blog Entries by Rohan Banerjee

Wayne Tooney? Perhaps Not

(0) Comments | Posted 15 May 2013 | (16:37)

As a Newcastle fan, I'm quite used to hearing ridiculous things - usually from our own supporters. But this one really tops the lot. Sports Direct News (yes that's actually a thing) has claimed that "low-level" talks have taken place between the Magpies and Wayne Rooney's agent, although an official...

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Decisions of Mass Delusion

(0) Comments | Posted 14 May 2013 | (01:20)

The politics of Manchester City is a lot like the Iraq war at the moment. I draw this comparison, not because the club hierarchy is from the Middle East - that's just a happy coincidence - but because the decision in question has led many to conscientiously object.

Roberto...

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Helena Horton and The Liberal Orthodoxy

(10) Comments | Posted 23 February 2013 | (14:08)

I've refrained from publishing this in my own student newspaper, on the off chance that it might offend someone. I've posted it on here however, because I really don't care.

In the latest spate of leftist madness at The University of York, Helena Horton, a first year Philosophy undergraduate,...

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Drnuk Txteing

(0) Comments | Posted 15 January 2013 | (00:43)

We've all been there, a few more drinks than we'd planned, sitting on either flank of a depleting dance floor, nursing the shards of what little dignity we have left. Crestfallen, we take out our phone and in a drunken haze start to scroll through our contacts list.

Whether it's...

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Pardew Sure He's the Right Man for the Job?

(3) Comments | Posted 11 January 2013 | (22:21)

Brighton 2 Newcastle 0. On its own this may be insufficient evidence of Alan Pardew's failings, but it goes a long way in characterising a tenure of underachievement. To the uninformed southerner I'm sure it would seem heresy to dare question the accomplishments of a man who just nine months...

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Caste-Away

(0) Comments | Posted 19 December 2012 | (17:11)

The Banerjees are entertaining. Courtesy of the ceiling fan, an exotic aroma wafts temptingly from the kitchen, through the doorway curtains and into our front room, where at the age of fifteen, I'm being asked how my progress into medicine is coming along. My grandfather is lambasting partition to a...

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