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Lina Kabbour, BA Politics and International Relations Taylor Swift has finally released her long-awaited album ‘The Life of a Showgirl’. The album is inspired by the Eras Tour and her inner world ‘when the lights go down’, as she stated on fiancé Travis Kelce’s podcast. She also announced
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Maaryah Rashid, Co-Deputy Editor, BA Politics and International Relations What would you do, if you knew the exact date of your last day on earth? According to South African preacher Joshua Mhlakela, the final day for believers would fall on either September 23rd or 24th, 2025, an event described
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Roxanna Brealey, Editor-in-Chief, History & Politics The Outer Space Treaty, signed in 1967, states that no one owns space, declaring it to be a ‘province of all mankind’. However, the fact that no one owns it makes it all the more welcoming for nation-states and global players
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Sia Madden, BA Politics and Africa and Black Diaspora Last week, a performative male contest was held in Soho, a meeting point for performance in every sense of the word. If there is anywhere that knows about performative males, Lord knows it’s Soho. The only thing that would have
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Sana Karim, MSc Global Development Brainrot refers to the excessive consumption of fast-paced, short-form content on platforms such as TikTok, YouTube Shorts, and Roblox. As more brainrot-style posts go viral, and our screen times reach record highs, research has started to warn of the damage this is
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Isabel Balkhi, MA Social Anthropology and Persian ‘Your attempts to silence us have failed because we're right and you're wrong,’ words passionately spoken by Kneecap rapper Liam Óg Ó hAnnaidh, who stood outside Woolwich Crown Court in September to make the long-awaited announcement to supporters
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Luc Cadwaladr-Evans, BA International Relations and Languages and Cultures Populist politics has always employed sensationalist tactics to capture the attention of the public. Othering and scapegoating to garner the support of a majority is an ever-present and ongoing strategy in the populist handbook - and, in case you were
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Lilac Carr, BA Politics and International Relations On September 29th, the President of the United States posted a video to X (and the inappropriately named Truth Social) of Democratic House Leader Chuck Schumer standing next to Democratic Senate Leader Hakeem Jeffries, who donned a sombrero and a moustache as stereotypical
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Rachel Tay, MA Middle Eastern Studies For days, thousands have been thronging outside the United States’ embassy in the Malaysian capital, Kuala Lumpur, after Sumud Nusantara vessels – part of the Global Sumud Flotilla – were intercepted by Israeli authorities earlier this month en route to Gaza. According to media reports, some
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Raaid Hussain, MA Middle Eastern Studies Two years into the Israeli regime’s attack on the Gaza Strip which the UN has termed a genocide, Israeli and Hamas officials have come to an agreement for a ceasefire deal as of October 9th 2025. US president Donald Trump announced the breakthrough
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Salma Shabana, BA Economics and Politics In a joint statement released on September 23rd 2025, Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger, the three members of the Alliance of Sahel States (AES), announced their withdrawal from the International Criminal Court (ICC). The military-run nations called the ICC an ‘instrument of neo-
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Anon Yu Henriksen, International News Staff Writer, BA International Relations and Korean The United States, long regarded as a global leader in higher education, is facing scrutiny over recent policy changes by the Trump administration that some say challenge the country's reputation as an international education hub. Earlier