Steel House, 11 Tothill Street | Kaveh Kordestani
Foreword It’s hard not to look at Steel House and imagine “sixties office block”. But that Portland stone façade was laid all the way...
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HUMANITIES
Editor: Kaveh Kordestani
Sep 214 min read
War and Peace: The Driving Force Behind Historical Events | Sophia Verai
Thoughts on the Ideas Discussed in the Second Epilogue of War & Peace, Regarding the Driving Force Behind Historical Events Tolstoy's War...
Sep 193 min read
Staying Put: The Legacy of Grenfell | Kaveh Kordestani
The Grenfell Tower Inquiry published its final report this month. Behind the rightly deserved castigation that the construction companies...
Sep 43 min read
The Roads That Divide | Kaveh Kordestani
London’s motorways, the nadir of post-war civil design: poorly planned, poorly executed and still a bane for Transport for London to...
Jul 136 min read
Babylon: The Accursed City of God | Santiago Acevedo-Henao
That city’s sins are piled up as high as heaven. God has not forgotten the wrongs she has done. (Revelations 18.5.) Babylon: a city...
Jun 146 min read
In Search of an Ideal: What Gives Idols Power? | Sophia Verai
At the heart of every great social, cultural or political movement, uprooting and revolution, lies an ideology. At the heart of most...
May 315 min read
Sixth Forms' Red Ink | Kaveh Kordestani
How Harris Westminster runs behind the scenes is not something most students think about. But whilst you are sitting through your...
May 225 min read
Untold Stories | Isabelle Perry-Wade
It is a known fact that the study of history is largely the study of men. Notable exceptions aside – Elizabeth I, Cleopatra, Boudicca to...
Apr 273 min read
The 100 Year Flood | Kaveh Kordestani
Flooding and London are not usually two words that go together. With the exception of some brief, occasional flash floods, the capital...
Mar 193 min read
The 13th Amendment: Rebranding Slavery | Safiye Misirlioglu
The Rule of Law is the most powerful tool in shaping people’s actions, regardless of whether these laws factor in the people that they...
Jan 225 min read
London is becoming more anti-car: That’s a Good Thing | Kaveh Kordestani
In the past few months, a four-letter acronym has swung local elections, changed national policy, and re-ignited a topic of contentious...
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...
Dec 7, 20223 min read
Does skateboarding belong in the mainstream? | Ezra Petty
Since its invention in 1950’s California, skateboarding has been subject to varying public opinion. Started as a way for surfers to catch...
Dec 7, 20225 min read
Opinion Piece: What can tax avoidance tell us about considered political discourse? | Leo Waterhouse
Colloquialisms like ‘every pound that avoids tax is another taken from the workers pocket’ echo their sanctimonious tone across the walls...
Nov 17, 20225 min read
From Lascars to leaders | Esha Amin
From Lascars to leaders: a brief historic and geographic insight on how Britain’s largest minority came to be A person of colour and a...
Nov 15, 20227 min read
Do Legal Positivism and Tyranny Go Hand in Hand? | Leo Waterhouse
John Austin’s blueprint of legal positivism, contains what is perhaps the most influential premise in legal philosophy. ‘The existence of...
Jan 19, 20223 min read
The Case of Sarah Everard: Can the 888 Phone Line Really Make US more ‘Streetwise’? | Angelika Santaniello
The case of Sarah Everard taught us women one thing: our safety is now only in our hands. Otherwise, more brutally and in the words of...
Nov 17, 20212 min read
‘Story telling is a political act’ – Polly Creed’s Lecture | Mia Spiller
On Tuesday 16th November, Polly Creed gave a lecture on Art and Activism- Making Politically Engaged Theatre & Film. During the talk she...
Oct 8, 20213 min read
Comradery in the wake of Covid-19 | Elizabeth Abayomi
Comradery is an important life skill that can be defined as the bond that ties two or more parties together alongside self-sacrifice and...
Mar 4, 20193 min read
“There’s no Planet B” and the meaning of the climate change movement | Vanesa Dimitrova
“I don’t want you to be hopeful. I want you to panic” says Swedish climate change activist Greta Thunberg “You are not mature enough to...
Oct 2, 20187 min read
Human Rights: Universal or a Western Construct? | Alessia Ciocanea
In this essay, human rights will be defined as the ideals belonging to all mankind, inherent to personhood, by which cultures attempt to...
Mar 22, 20183 min read
Witnesses to the Dissenters | Anna Fleischer
It’s not often you find yourself passionately defending Christ’s divinity in the thick snow outside Westminster station, shivering and...
Feb 24, 20185 min read
Colourism in Asia | Sadia Ahmed
Throughout history, human beings have always been fairly tribal creatures, focusing on physical, linguistic, and geographical differences...
Jan 31, 201811 min read
The Strange Case of Jack the Ripper | Fatema Hakim
The year is 1888. The stage, the shadowy and bog-filled streets of the East End of London. More specifically, the Whitechapel District,...
Jan 28, 20183 min read
Fashionable Cruelty | Rita Carvalho
It has recently been brought up in social media that H&M and Zara are some of the fashion companies that allow child labour in the...
Jan 23, 20184 min read
The Good War | Gabriel Ivens
On August the 21st 2013, the Assad regime used rockets filled with Sarin gas to kill (at the smallest estimate) 500 civilians in Ghouta,...
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