A few weeks ago, when visiting Londonderry, the mood of residents was hopeful. Despite the car bomb explosions earlier in the year, people were largely unfazed, reasoning that the groups undertaking terrorist acts in an […]
Notre Dame Recovery: Money Well Spent?
For fifteen hours one of France’s most well-known landmarks stood ablaze: the Notre Dame cathedral, engulfed with flames, made headlines across the world. Empathy from political figures has been pouring into France, from Theresa May’s […]
Brunei Is Stoning Its LGBTI Citizens To Death. Will Western Activism Help?
On 3rd April, the South-East Asian country Brunei officially made gay sex acts punishable by stoning to death. Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah established Brunei’s Sharia penal code in 2014 with the aim of increasing Islam’s influence. […]
Meghan Markle Is Having A Baby. Why Does The Media Care So Much?
We all know tabloids are rags. They are lowest common denominator, ill-informed and reactionary entities of ‘media’. To abandon them, to let their own brand of festering, malicious journalism die, would be beneficial to anyone […]
The Poison Killing Our Lungs
On the 8th April, an Ultra-Low Emissions Zone (ULEZ) was introduced in Central London. Now, there is a £12.50 charge on vehicles and a new restriction on emissions in an attempt to ‘improve air quality’ […]
Cancel Culture: Mob Rule In Disguise?
It seems to be a good general guideline that everyone has at some point said or done something that they really shouldn’t have. But, like everything, there are different degrees of unacceptable. In the last […]
Big Brother on the Internet? Watchdogs and Social Media
The Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport has published a white paper advocating for an independent internet watchdog to keep the giants of social media in check, as well as giving oversight to the […]
Airport Drinking Culture: A Great British Embarrassment?
Picture this: it’s 5am at the airport and you’ve just finished your fourth black coffee. Waiting for the 6am flight to Dubai, you see someone next to you sipping away at a bottle of red […]
Is Change Coming?
“If you don’t do something, who is going to?” asked Toke Dahler, the 2015/16 Union Affairs Officer, in an interview back in December. The context: encouraging international students like himself to run in this year’s Lead LUU. […]
The British Press And The Transmission Of Hate
In a country so deeply split in the midst of Brexit chaos, the ideas of the far-right have been rapidly gaining traction. The divisive nature of a referendum always carried the risk of an increase […]