Category: News
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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: 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: 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…