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What Actually Happened: Hillary Clinton

Thirty months ago, in June 2016, Hillary Clinton was the presumptive nominee of the US Democratic Party for the 2016  presidential election. Poll after poll declared that she would be President of the United States before she was even formally announced as her party's nominee. As expected, she became the party nominee, beating Bernie Sanders, and from there on, nearly every journalist and political pundit proclaimed her triumph over Trump. To affirm her "victory", she appeared with celebrities, hoping that her association with rappers, actors, athletes, late-night hosts and reality TV stars might convince America's approximately 69 million Millenials to vote for her. From Ben Affleck to Henry Zebrowski, via LeBron James and Bill Maher, thousands of celebrities endorsed Clinton's presidential campaign, making certain that Hillary would win in a historic landslide. November would see bigotry and stagnation, the values that Clinton's campaign attached to Trump,

Make It Harder To Vote

In one of Invenire's most popular articles, we criticised the concept of a democracy, for the reason that it is illogical and unreasonable for everyone to have an equal level of power in deciding new laws and choosing public officials. In this article, we will expand on the ideas behind restricting voting to certain people. In the United Kingdom, historically, there have been restrictions that barred women and poorer men from voting in public elections. By the year 1918, all men over the age of 21, were eligible to vote, and by 1928, the same voting rights were extended to women. As a result of the Representation of the People Act (1969), all legal residents of the United Kingdom, over the age of 18, regardless of the value of their private property, are eligible to vote. While making political franchise universal helped create a fairer country, it cannot be denied that there are great flaws in the system. This mistake is destined to cause an even greater mistake, and it like

Why I'm Not Pro-Democracy

Democracy is defined by the Oxford English Dictionary as "a form of government in which the people have a say over how it is governed" and its literal definition is "people power" (Classical Greek). Frequent, open and fair elections are seen as the hallmarks of democracies, and often, the hallmarks of great societies. Democracy's roots, however, did not see elections as such an essential process. This form of government, regarded by many as the hallmark of a great civilisation, originates from 5th Century BC Athens. In Ancient Athens, anyone who was a free male, and was not foreign-born, was granted the right to attend an ecclesia or assembly, where they would have the chance to bring about public lawsuits and debate new laws. These assemblies occurred several times a month and of the approximately 30, 000 eligible, there were about 6,000 to every meeting. A government of 6,000, in which there was no structural debate would have made for ineffective governme

Post-Brexit Britain

Once the United Kingdom leaves the European Union, some critics believe that the British economy will never be resurrected and that it will suffer miserably, as it fails to trade with the wider world. However, after an in-depth analysis of the British economy, our team here at Invenire have chosen four actions to be taken by the Government to create more jobs for British workers. 1. Invest in vocational and technical training  Many believe that Theresa May should solely focus her higher education efforts on lowering university costs. Although Britain does need a new generation of academics and university-educated professionals to fill the market without foreigners, it remains the truth that the United Kingdom needs a new, stronger network of vocational  colleges and trade schools.  A study by the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) warns that the number of university leavers has dramatically outstripped the supply of advanced jobs. The report used data from the UK Commission