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Category: Politics
Business in the front, partisan in the back? Why fashion’s most contested hairstyle has made its return
By Tom Vaughan ‘History repeats itself’ is the phrase that springs to mind when thinking about one particular hairstyle — the mullet. Best known for its ‘business in the front, party in the back’ tagline, […]
Everything you need to know about the US electoral college voting system
How is it that a presidential candidate can win the presidency without a majority of the population’s votes? Why are pollsters obsessed with New Hampshire? Why is Ohio known as the “bellwether state”? WTAF is […]
2020 Presidential Debate: The best America has to offer?
Last night, the first presidential debate between President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden took place, after a year marked by larger polemics such as the coronavirus pandemic and rising protest in the […]
The latest Lib Dem leadership election is too safe a choice
By Oliver Toms The election of Sir Ed Davey as leader of the Liberal Democrats by the largest margin since Paddy Ashdown in 1988 shows that the membership has rejected Layla Moran’s progressive movement in […]
Power to the people: What does the future look like for Belarus?
By Sam Baker Civil unrest rages the streets of Belarus following the country’s most contentious election in decades. Abhorrent displays of police brutality against peaceful protesters and horrifying scenes inside prisons have triggered Amnesty to […]
Statelessness, forgiveness and a fair trial: Shamima Begum is returning to the UK to fight for her citizenship
Today, the Court of Appeal ruled that Shamima Begum, the London schoolgirl who left the UK to join the Islamic State back in 2015, should be allowed to return to fight for her British citizenship. A […]
Trump’s self-imposed brain drain: why immigration bans do not “free up jobs”
By Harriet Habergham It’s an innate sense of self-preservation that makes it easier for humans to blame others rather than themselves when things go awry. Whilst this may assuage temporary feelings of embarrassment, in the […]
Glasgow stabbings reveal how the UK fails asylum seekers
By Iona Holmes Just a few weeks ago, reports concerning the appalling conditions that asylum seekers were being subjected to in Glasgow hotels started to trickle through media outlets. When a stabbing occurred at the […]
Raab vs rights: What is going on with the UK’s new human rights sanctions?
On Monday, our beloved foreign secretary, Dominic Raab, dropped a bombshell of new human rights sanctions comprising of asset freezes and travel bans against human rights abusers in Saudi Arabia, Russia, Myanmar and North Korea. […]