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 […]
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. […]
Leaving Neverland: Should Art Be Seperated From The Artist?
Leaving Neverland is hard to watch. It is rife with graphic and visceral descriptions of child sexual abuse: actions that are so abjectly evil one cannot begin to comprehend that they actually happened. Upon the […]
Labour Clarity On Brexit: Corbyn Seizes People’s Vote
A couple of weeks ago, Jeremy Corbyn promised a glimmer of hope to a (spiritually) bereft nation following years of insecurity and uncertainty over downtrodden Britons’ futures. No, this wasn’t a grandiose, Momentum-esque policy reveal, […]
Why The US Should Stay Well Away From Venezuela
Venezuela is once again at the forefront of nations experiencing extreme political turmoil. President Maduro, the socialist dictator currently at the helm of Venezuelan politics, has lost the confidence of much of the opposition and […]
It’s Time To Abandon Our Infallible Image Of Churchill
Take a moment to read the following quotes. One belongs to Winston Churchill, the man who is so often lauded as the greatest Prime Minister to ever have graced the United Kingdom; one belongs to […]
Companies Are Stockpiling Medicines Amid Fears Of A No-Deal Brexit
One of the many lies told by the Leave campaign was that the money saved from leaving the EU would result in £350m for the NHS per week. This lie contributed towards citizens voting to […]