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Pictured and Image Credits: Keir Starmer (Heute.at), Kemi Badenoch (Flickr), Ed Davey (Wikimedia Commons), Nigel Farage (Heute.at) and Zack Polanski (Wikimedia Commons) [edited] Beginning the 5th of September 2025, the UK’s leading political parties commenced this year’s cycle of conferences; establishing their policy aims, economic plans and making promises to the British public about what…
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Pictured: Donald Trump Image credits: Wikimedia Commons For years, vaccines have been (erroneously) blamed for the rise in autism rates, largely due to a discredited 1998 paper by Andrew Wakefield. However, the Trump administration and various conspiracy theorists, more broadly, have shifted their focus to a new culprit: Tylenol. At a press conference on 20th…
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Pictured: Nigel Farage Image credits: Flickr A former member of the European Parliament, broadcaster, Reform UK party leader, and media personality, Nigel Farage has his fingers in many pies. In March 2021, after he lost his job as a radio host, he joined Cameo and very quickly added ‘meme’ onto the list of things he…
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Image credits: Heute.at The crowd roared as the acts arrived on stage, illuminated by the glow of the spotlights and the dancing flames of the pyrotechnics. Thousands of flags were held aloft before the cameras by the audience as millions of international viewers watched on TV. However, this wasn’t a normal song contest. Instead, this…
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Pictured: Jeremy Corbyn (Wikimedia Commons) and Zarah Sultana (Wikimedia Commons) [Edited] For many, the news of the formation of a new left-wing party led by a former Labour leader and a former Labour MP was a source of hope, something rare in the current political landscape. It sought to turn the current loose grouping of…
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Image Credits: Wikimedia Commons The now permanent Eurovision slogan ‘United by Music’ which was first introduced in 2024,, represents the original aims of the competition. Martin Osterdahl, the Executive Supervisor of the Eurovision Song Contest, said ‘It’s the perfect slogan to underline our values of inclusivity, equality, universality and celebrating diversity through music.’ However, ‘United…
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Image Credits: Ellie Smith On 16th September, the United Nations Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory published a report confirming something that many of us were already very aware of: Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. As outlined in Article II of the 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of…
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Image credits: Ted Eytan Since the Supreme Court ruled that a ‘woman’ is defined by biological sex in equality law, the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) has set out to do the impossible. Its role to provide guidance to service providers around the new interpretation of the law, including how it pertains to single-sex…
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Image credits: Flickr On the 16th of September, an authoritarian despot and his coterie touched down in the United Kingdom. The man who arrived in Windsor was a leader who has presided over the dismantling of democratic institutions and the erosion of freedom of speech in his own country, and has enabled genocide and emboldened…
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Image Credits: Wikimedia Commons ‘It’s not just about social media – it’s about silencing our voices’ September witnessed an extraordinary rupture within Nepal’s political landscape, proving a stark reminder of the fragility of democracy. A rupture in the form of a youth-led movement resulted in the overthrow of the government in just 48 hours. What…