Category: News
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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…
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Image Credits: Flickr On the 21st of August, the National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers announced seven days of rolling strike action across the London Underground network, beginning on the 5th of September and ending on the 12th. This came after negotiations with Transport for London fell through due to what the RMT…
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Image Credits: Flickr [edited] Protests, division, xenophobia and racism; we’ve seen a summer of instability unseen since the 70s. Behind the tacky flags zip-tied to lampposts is a movement that, if left unchallenged, will ultimately lead our country down a path of fascism that will do irreversible damage. From Yemen, to Syria, to Iraq –…
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Photo credits: Matthew Price Term 3 was draining. With essays piling up and many reminiscing about summers gone by, we yearned for a repeat of one of these seemingly endless summers of fun to be waiting at the end of our studies. This, I must admit, was exactly my position at the end of second…