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Reluctant Assimilation: Of survival & neo-colonialism
By Syirxh A Three years ago, I left Malaysia to study in the UK. “Come back with a British accent,” my mum said. I’m already fluent in...
Jul 12, 20205 min read
Make Black Lives Matter by reforming drug policy
Both Boris Johnson and Michael Gove have admitted to using cocaine in the past. Unlike the 22.9% of Black people making up those...
Jul 12, 20204 min read
A temporary silver lining: homelessness and COVID-19
The government’s creation of 6000 supported homes, alongside council initiatives to provide shelter for 90% of the homeless population...
Jul 7, 20205 min read
Limiting success to gender: female leaders in the coronavirus responses
by Nicole Leslie Charria As Boris Johnson’s coronavirus-based opinion polls slide down the scale, many activists on Twitter, TikTok and...
Jun 29, 20205 min read
Signed, sealed, and delivered…in a pandemic
Inadvertently becoming a key worker: a memoire piece on working in a sorting warehouse while COVID-19 spread through the UK. By John...
Jun 29, 20205 min read
Locked down & depressed, imprisoned in my home & head
by Ruth Stewart Keep two metres apart. No gatherings of more than five people. Stay at home. As a sufferer of social anxiety, these rules...
Jun 26, 20204 min read
From taking the knee to obnoxious feminists: Dominic Raab is a bad guy
From his mocking of ‘taking the knee’, to denying the importance of human rights, to being undeniably out of touch; here’s why Dominic...
Jun 23, 20204 min read
One rule for us and another for them: the untouchable rich
“The reality is it’s one rule for the most powerful people in Government and another for the rest of us, which is incredibly dangerous.”...
Jun 21, 20204 min read
Laughing in the face of adversity
Everybody loves to laugh. Urban myth believes children do it 300 times a day, and given that humans are the only species with the ability...
Jun 19, 20204 min read
Culture wars in the UK: how the government has swamped the BLM narrative
By Ellie Taylor We all saw the images from Bristol last week when Black Lives Matter protestors pulled down the statue of slave trader...
Jun 19, 20204 min read
Erasing the LGBTQ flag
The emerging phenomenon known as the ‘NHS rainbow’, has been appearing in windows since early April. It is bizarre that the LGBTQ rainbow...
Jun 17, 20204 min read
Public health or economic health? Or both?
By Joe Das The coronavirus lockdown is likely to cause one of the biggest economic crises in modern history. Estimates from the...
Jun 16, 20204 min read
Equating feminism to a vagina: J.K. Rowling’s problematic ideas on trans rights
If you exist anywhere on a social media platform, you may have seen recently that J. K. Rowling has stirred up controversy through a...
Jun 15, 20207 min read
‘I don’t know what to do’: The fear of graduating in the midst of a pandemic
By Olivia Stringer Under normal circumstances graduating from university is often one of the most daunting experiences that young people...
Jun 11, 20204 min read
Searching for black voices in the UK curriculum
My latest essay as a first-year English literature student was about the importance of peripheral narratives emerging — particularly the...
Jun 10, 20205 min read
‘Order!’: How lockdown has impacted political debate
By Alice Harper With Westminster left suddenly quiet, are there lessons to be learned from the new normal? At a time where the world...
Jun 8, 20204 min read
Reflecting upon women and children first
“Let us take care of the women and children first.” – J.H. Buckingham. Feminist achievement over the past century is slowly, but surely...
Jun 1, 20204 min read
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