2022 has been an eventful year filled with learning. For me, 2022 has been shaped around two main events: full-time work and full-time university. The obvious question is: why would I subject myself to this?

Climate change exists and is being accelerated by human activities. To deny this is to create and enable a system where politics creates reality rather than a system where politics is guided by reality. A lack of care towards the biosphere upon which all socio-economic systems inherently rely is already shaping policy.

Poor organisation, incomplete reading lists, disinterested lecturers, lazy group members, mandatory in-person seminars clearly designed to tick a box and exams consisting of glorified reading comprehension - multiple choice questions which fail to test the key ideas discussed in the course. Fortunately, the Business, Politics and Culture (BPC) course proved that there is a better way to run a course without mandating any significant changes.