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We extract the best stories, so you don’t have to.Marching for Women’s Rights: On Saturday,…
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We extract the best stories, so you don’t have to.A Licence to Shoot Up: The Thistle, in…
Empire: A Source of National Pride or Historical Reckoning?
The debate over how the British Empire is taught in schools reflects a broader tension between…
Beyond Anxiety and Depression: Why We Need a New Model for Treating Mental Illness
We often talk of a widespread mental health ‘crisis.’ In the last twenty years, common mental…
Holocaust Denialism in the Age of AI: Why We Must Remember the Truth
In 1945 on January 27th, the concentration camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau was liberated. It was not the…
Why You Should Know More About Disability Rights History, and I Should Too
From November 16 until December 16 it's UK Disability History Month. Thinking of this has made me…
The Man Behind the Modern Vampire
In the spirit of Halloween, we are drawn to remembering the monsters that have plagued the screen,…
The Tale of Halloween: From Pagans to Playboy
Legally Blonde. Mean Girls. Bridget Jones’s Diary. What do all three of these films have in common?…
Tiananmen Square Massacre: To Forget is To Repeat
On June 4, 1989, the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) was mobilised and sent to Beijing to…
Why the Case for a British Republic is Clear
What exactly is a republic? It’s often described as being a system of governance that replaces a…
New Orleans’ Racist Past & Present: Two Years Since George Floyd
Droplets of jazz break upon the ear, infiltrated by chatter about pirates, ghosts and vampires. The…
International Women’s Day: Reclaim Your Feminist Agenda!
It's International Women’s Day but what does it mean to reclaim our Feminist Agenda?A Cause for…
Prisoners of History: What Next for Ukraine, Russia and the World?
In a TV address at 5:55 a.m. Moscow time on the 24th of February, Russian President Vladimir Putin…
Fake News, ‘Trace News’ and Collective Memory: Understanding Misinformation
The phrase ‘Fake News’ synonymised 2017 and there are now 300 fact-checking organisations…
How Our Tea Industry Sustains the Ghost of Colonialism
Every day, the British public consumes roughly 100 million cups of tea which amounts to 36 billion…
Compulsory Vaccinations: A Breach of Rights or a Necessary Public Health Measure?
A new wave of Covid infection is hitting Europe. And with that comes the threat of further…
Ukraine: The Dormant Giant that Could Ignite a World War
Ukraine seems to be a puzzle that very few of us in the West want to solve. Its rich but often…
Sally Rooney’s So-Called Cultural Boycott of Israel is a Gift to Israeli Hardliners
Sally Rooney’s decision not to have her latest book translated into Hebrew by an Israeli publishing…
BHM: All the Ways Black People Still Don’t Matter
Between 2019 and 2020, there were more than 31,700 reports of missing Black people. In London, this…
How Many Genocides Does it Take? In Conversation with Holocaust Survivor, Eva Clarke
Eva Clarke weighed only three pounds when she was born in Mauthausen Concentration Camp on April…
The Evolution of Racism: Can a Black Person be Racist and Not Know It?
Mutation and evolution are essential to an organism's survival. Viruses mutate, adapting to their…
What Stoicism and Tolkien can teach us about suffering
'The present moment is all anyone possesses but no-one can lose either their past or their future,…
Silence of the Muslims: Uighurs abandoned to face genocide
The Uighurs are a vulnerable group living in China. This group is undergoing unethical……
Identity and Dissent: Should we ‘do as the Romans do?’
The Roman Empire means blood, gore, backstabbing and ruthless political expedience. But, to…