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Dec 12, 20231 min read
Misleading Pleasantries | Sophia Verai
With her clear gaze and soft little smile she shows you the same good-natured indifference she'd show everyone in the world. She's...
Dec 12, 20232 min read
“I’m desperate” Gillian Wearing's lens on a nation mid-recession | Cleo Bador
The early 90s saw Britain undergo one of the most devastating recessions in generations; suffering the consequences of Black Wednesday...
Dec 5, 20233 min read
Exploring Uncharted Worlds Beyond Our Solar System | Ivelina Zhisheva
From the start of time until the present, Earth has experienced the most catastrophic events and has evolved every time. From the...
Dec 5, 20234 min read
Smells like Teen Spirit | Nour Ghannam, Salma Amin
How does music shape our adolescent experience? In the words of Katrina McFerran of the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music, “the way that...
Dec 5, 20234 min read
Britain's Bankrupt Councils | Kaveh Kordestani
For the past 13 years, Britain’s councils have “worked miracles” trying to balance their budgets. Those are the words of Sir Stephen...
Dec 5, 20232 min read
Ageing Beside Stones in Bloom | Milo Ghandai
O soft speaking stones frustrated by time, Show me the gentle hand encased in frigid stone. O Green-plagued, yellow-speckled face, your...
Dec 5, 20231 min read
Staircase | Sophia Verai
You’ve found your way up, now find it back down. Turn to see what’s gone before The light behind a closing door A newly pressed footprint...
Dec 5, 20232 min read
Hands Shaking with Adrenaline | Eve Franklin
Hands shaking with adrenaline, I turned the page. Halfway down, below a regimented paragraph of words in Calibri and a short, instructive...
Dec 5, 20231 min read
Whispers in the Abyss: Embracing Life's Paradox | Kayleigh Coulibaly
Each step a sigh, a fleeting breath, In the spiral's dance, where life meets death. Pointless whispers in the cosmic air, As we move...
Dec 5, 20232 min read
Temple | Hasan Jubril Alao
Nestled amidst a thick enigmatic forest were the remnants of an antiquated temple, a testament to the bygone eras of old. Its strange...
Dec 5, 20231 min read
Changes | Shaheera Kuchai
In the heart of the tower, where plants held sway, A father and daughter, in their own special way. Amidst the greenery, in that secret...
Mar 24, 20235 min read
Van Gogh: Madman or Genius? | Fela Callahan
Van Gogh’s art was one of the first to particularly resonate with me. I remember going into my secondary school library to take books...
Mar 18, 20233 min read
'Changing places, Making spaces' Lecture thoughts | Esha Amin
Like the majority of lectures Harris Westminster offers, “Changing Places, Making Spaces” was a highly interesting and unexpected one...
Feb 23, 20235 min read
Silver | Melodi Dogru
It was the day the Moon fell. He started down in haste as if the scale had been tipped off by the flick of a finger. The clouds moved...
Feb 23, 20234 min read
Daniel Hannan, the ERG and the origins of Brexit | Fela Callahan
Despite being amid another post‐Brexit ‘difficulty’ in debates over the Northern Ireland protocol, the consensus is that we should now...
Feb 23, 20233 min read
Climate Apathy | Bobby Hughes
With the passing of the COP27 climate summit in Egypt last November, the global community’s stance on climate change has never been...
Feb 21, 20235 min read
How Russia damaged China's ambitions in Asia | Fela Callahan
Recent tensions over the shooting down of a suspected Chinese surveillance balloon have led me to consider how such tensions may...
Feb 21, 20233 min read
The morality of striking: should we condone it? | Jessica Hawkins
On the morning of the 10th of November, Harris Westminster staff and students faced the hardship of getting to school alongside the mass...
Feb 4, 20231 min read
The Teary Eyed Boy | Milo Ghiandai
There is a teary eyed boy, they're big and brown they taste, lick and breathe the watery sigh of the world. He lives for autumn orange...
Jan 24, 20235 min read
America’s global influence and International Organisations | Ike Idikakalu
The United States of America has long been the pre-eminent global superpower and perhaps the most powerful nation to ever exist....
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