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  • The Latest Labour Budget: Success or Failure?

    Pictured: Rachel Reeves Image credits: Flickr On the 26th of November 2025, Rachel Reeves, MP for Leeds West and Chancellor of the Exchequer, released the Labour government’s latest budget plan for the British economy. The budget has prompted backlash from all sides of the British political spectrum and has shown just how divided our country…

  • Shabana Mahmood: the moral costs of appeasing the far-right

    Pictured: Shabana Mahmood Image Credits: James Whatling via Wikimedia Commons On the 17th of November, Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood announced government plans to radically change the asylum system, telling MPs the current situation is “out of control and unfair”. It is clear that Labour’s focus has drifted from evidence-based asylum statistics and issues that matter most…

  • The Election of Catherine Connolly: A Sign of Hope or a Showcase of Apathy with Politics

    Pictured: Michael D. Higgins and Catherine Connolly Image Credits: Wikimedia Commons On Friday, 24th October 2025, the Irish presidential election took place to elect the person who will follow in the steps of the highly popular President Michael D. Higgins.  With 3 candidates on the ballot, the Independent candidate Catherine Connolly, Fine Gael’s Heather Humphreys,…

  • What Zohran Mamdani’s mayoral victory means for American Politics

    Image Credits: Heute.at On the 4th of November 2025 New York City elected a new mayor into office:  Zohran Mamdani. A democrat, and a self-proclaimed democratic socialist, Mamdani won the mayoral election race with over 50% of the vote against the former state governor Andrew Cuomo and Republican party candidate Curtis Sliwa.  Mamdani’s victory has…

  • Caerphilly Balanced Factors: How Labour Lost a Stronghold

    Image Credits: Wikimedia Commons In what can only be described as a historic moment in Welsh politics, Plaid Cymru defeated the Labour Party in the Caerphilly by-election on Thursday 23rd October. On his fourteenth attempt at the seat, Lindsay Whittle will be the new Member of the Senedd (MS) for Caerphilly, until the next election…

  • Frenemies over Feminism: the feud between Taylor Swift and Charli XCX

    Pictured: Taylor Swift (Wikimedia Commons) and Charli XCX (Wikimedia Commons) [edited] Like her song title suggests, Taylor Swift is more than used to the idea of being ‘CANCELLED!’, and her new album reflects this sentiment. The Life of a Showgirl, Swift’s thirteenth album, was released on the 3rd of October. Under the microscope of criticism,…

  • The Right Takes Rights: Tories, Reform and the ECHR

    In their 2024 manifesto ‘Our Contract With You’, Nigel Farage’s Reform Party committed itself to leaving the European Convention on Human Rights in order to ‘tackle immigration’ if they were to win the next election, which now seems likely. According to a YouGov poll, heading into the Conservative Party conference Reform polled the highest of…

  • Polanski’s ‘politics of hope’ propel the Green Party into a bright, socialist future

    Image credits: Wikimedia Commons Since Zack Polanski was elected as leader of the Green Party of England and Wales in September, the party has seen a more than 50% increase in membership – from 65,000 members to over 100,000. This increase has been driven partially by disillusionment with Labour among left-wing voters, but also by…

  • The ‘Brit Card’: An impractical step towards Fascism

    Image credits: PickPik The Labour government is planning to implement a new form of ID, a digital ID, possession of which will be mandatory, and failure to have one will presumably be criminalised. This ID Card will be stored on our phones, and operate to prove identity, age, and residency status, with the stated aim…

  • Spiking at Warwick: How safe are Students on nights out?

    Image credits: Ellie Smith TRIGGER WARNING: RAPE AND SEXUAL ASSAULT Spiking at University is all too common, as a survey by the Alcohol Education Trust found that 1 in 10 students have been a victim of spiking during their studies. An even more horrifying report found that some victims subsequently reported being raped, sexually assaulted…