My specialty is politics, and politics tends to come with opinions. In the last decade, the political spectrum has become increasingly polarised and divided; the middle ground much harder to sustain.
I am not impartial. No one is. However, my strength lies in provoking conversations and encouraging engagement. For me impartiality is a problematic notion: everyone has intrinsic bias. Promoting awareness of these competing biases is perhaps the best way to give more balance to political analysis.
This is why critical thinking is so crucial. By replacing the term impartiality with critical engagement regardless of who that engagement is levelled at, I believe that much more insight can be cleaned from what is said and by whom. In turn that insight can be used to the advantage of clients and colleagues attempting to navigate the present political situation.
Steph Clarke 