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Aug 194 min read

How The Government Can Help With Youth Mental Health | Troy Francis-Brown

It has become undeniable in recent years that youth mental health in the United Kingdom is in crisis. Today it feels as if every young...

May 134 min read

Politics

The Politics of Today: Do the Generation of Tomorrow Want it? | Zeinab Sabri

The next generation of voters are the youth of today, yet they are being ignored by politicians. Politics has become a foreign sport to...

Citizen Assemblies: Future of Democracy? | Troy Francis-Brown

May 64 min read

Politics

Citizen Assemblies: Future of Democracy? | Troy Francis-Brown

On Halloween last year, my school was lucky enough to have former Lib Dem MP Tom Brake visit us to give a lecture on the work of the...

Is This Finally Labour’s Year? The Party’s Chances of Winning in 2024 | Troy Francis-Brown

Jan 234 min read

Politics

Is This Finally Labour’s Year? The Party’s Chances of Winning in 2024 | Troy Francis-Brown

The Labour party are infamously good at losing elections. Indeed, the party has failed to win a single election in my lifetime so far,...

Britain's Bankrupt Councils | Kaveh Kordestani

Dec 5, 20234 min read

Politics

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...

Daniel Hannan, the ERG and the origins of Brexit | Fela Callahan

Feb 23, 20234 min read

Politics

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...

How Russia damaged China's ambitions in Asia | Fela Callahan

Feb 21, 20235 min read

Politics

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...

The morality of striking: should we condone it? | Jessica Hawkins

Feb 21, 20233 min read

Politics

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...

America’s global influence and International Organisations | Ike Idikakalu

Jan 24, 20235 min read

Politics

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....

Nov 17, 20225 min read

Humanities and Social Sciences

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...

Realism, Liberalism and the Ukraine War | Fela Callahan

Nov 17, 20224 min read

Politics

Realism, Liberalism and the Ukraine War | Fela Callahan

The Russo-Ukrainian War has fanned the flames in a discourse that has occurred since the beginning of the study of history itself. This...

Do we need a constitutional monarchy? Thailand's perspective | Yolanda Trujillo Rodriguez De Ledesma

Nov 6, 20224 min read

Politics

Do we need a constitutional monarchy? Thailand's perspective | Yolanda Trujillo Rodriguez De Ledesma

On the 24th of June 1932, a coup d'état transformed Siam’s absolute monarchy to a constitutional one. Seven years later, Siam became...

Sitting down with Sir David Evennet | Callum McGee

Sep 1, 20224 min read

Politics

Sitting down with Sir David Evennet | Callum McGee

In December 2021, I was fortunate enough to meet and interview Sir David Evennett, MP for Bexleyheath and Crayford. A conservative, he...

Chileans bidding farewell to Neoliberalism show there is hope for us all | Tom Rosas

Mar 23, 20227 min read

Politics

Chileans bidding farewell to Neoliberalism show there is hope for us all | Tom Rosas

On the 20th of December last year Christmas seemed to arrive early for leftists in Latin America and across the World. Chile – who 50...

Mar 23, 20224 min read

Politics

Social Media and its Threat to Politics | Addison Mitchell

My auntie’s mother Daphne is a typical retiree who has lived a comfortable life and has now settled down in Thanet. Daphne and her...

Mar 16, 20222 min read

Politics

Biden’s First Year | Harland Cossons

The Economist wrote of late that presidents are set up to fail. In response to misleading media coverage and congressional gridlock, many...

The Case of Sarah Everard: Can the 888 Phone Line Really Make US more ‘Streetwise’? | Angelika Santaniello

Jan 19, 20223 min read

Humanities and Social Sciences

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...

‘Story telling is a political act’ – Polly Creed’s Lecture | Mia Spiller

Nov 17, 20212 min read

Arts and Literature

‘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...

COVID-19, The “Chinese Virus” | Wei Htoo

Apr 11, 20206 min read

Politics

COVID-19, The “Chinese Virus” | Wei Htoo

When a need to get the point across outweighs the safety of a group of people, on a national level… Since the first reported cases of...

Prisoners – The New Slaves | Rama Aowidah

Nov 29, 20194 min read

Politics

Prisoners – The New Slaves | Rama Aowidah

The only way we have made improvements to our previous society is by questioning the moral obliquity present in certain aspects of our...

The Unknown Famine Crime In Yemen | Alaa El-Hannach

May 20, 20192 min read

Politics

The Unknown Famine Crime In Yemen | Alaa El-Hannach

Very little mainstream media has given any attention to the famine currently happening in Yemen and the devastating effects it has had on...

Environmentally Friendly Baby Steps | J Martin

May 7, 20193 min read

Advice and Lifestyle

Environmentally Friendly Baby Steps | J Martin

After having been introduced on Wednesday by Labour, MPs have passed a motion making the UK parliament the first in the world to delare...

Are The Effects of Global Warming “Fair”? | Alaa El-Hannach

May 1, 20193 min read

Politics

Are The Effects of Global Warming “Fair”? | Alaa El-Hannach

As we all know, global warming is having detrimental effects on the planet. Sea levels have risen and continue to rise, there has been...

Mar 10, 201911 min read

Advice and Lifestyle

Hijabs & Hysteria | Sadia Ahmed

Photograph: muslim abaya | Tumblr “Do you sleep with that on?” “Do you shower with that on?” “I don’t think girls should be allowed to...

“There’s no Planet B” and the meaning of the climate change movement | Vanesa Dimitrova

Mar 4, 20193 min read

Humanities and Social Sciences

“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...

Venezuela: Instability and Insurrection| Etta Selim

Feb 11, 20194 min read

Politics

Venezuela: Instability and Insurrection| Etta Selim

A year ago, information about the Venezuelan crisis was surprisingly scarce. Only a small cluster of conflicting ideas lurked in the...

Jan 23, 20192 min read

Politics

Plan B | Kane Mesa

I think it’s fair to say that Brexit up to now has been a complete joke. Theresa May’s government has constantly failed to establish a...

Are we being honest with young people?| Yinka Aresa

Nov 9, 20183 min read

Politics

Are we being honest with young people?| Yinka Aresa

This autumn ONS has released a series of articles exploring young people’s earnings, education and employment, culminating in a...

Human Rights: Universal or a Western Construct? | Alessia Ciocanea

Oct 2, 20187 min read

Humanities and Social Sciences

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...

Mia on Moran on Benefits | Mia Barbe-Willson

Sep 1, 20182 min read

Politics

Mia on Moran on Benefits | Mia Barbe-Willson

Banging on in the style of Caitlin Moran with lots of love and some bad puns As someone open about growing up on benefits and a great...

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