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...
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POLITICS
Editor: Molly Hamill, Yasser Maait
May 134 min read
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...
May 64 min read
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...
Jan 234 min read
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,...
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...
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 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...
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....
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 17, 20224 min read
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...
Nov 6, 20224 min read
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...
Sep 1, 20224 min read
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...
Mar 23, 20227 min read
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
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
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...
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...
Apr 11, 20206 min read
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...
Nov 29, 20194 min read
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...
May 20, 20192 min read
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...
May 7, 20193 min read
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...
May 1, 20193 min read
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
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...
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...
Feb 11, 20194 min read
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
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...
Nov 9, 20183 min read
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...
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...
Sep 1, 20182 min read
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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