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Maaryah Rashid, Co-Deputy Editor, BA Politics and International Relations We have another epidemic on our hands, except this time, it’s not an attack on the immune system. A significant portion of the UK population has unfortunately adopted the xenophobic and harmful ideologies of the radical far right, championed by
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Afina Nafisah Jasmine, MA Comparative Literature On a regular day last summer, I was participating in a project that required me to research relevant academic papers. I had been working on this project for several months and continuously helped the team collect secondary research as we slowly inched towards publishing
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Melina Tavakoli Moghaddam, Sub-editor, BA Politics and International Relations with a Year Abroad You know when you walk up the stairs of the main library, find yourself on D floor, and notice on your right the breadth of resources dedicated to art and archaeology in Africa? Stacks and bays full
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It is with great excitement that we finally launch Issue 33 of the Spirit! This first month of term has gone by in the blink of an eye, and I’m sure everyone on the Spirit team and this issue’s writers can agree that deadlines seem to approach at
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Dear readers of the Spirit, Since the last release of the Spirit in October, we have received numerous pieces of feedback, which is greatly appreciated. We have also received many photos of the Spirit found in weird and wonderful places. One of my favourites was multiple photos of a cat
Sport and Societies
By Lilac Carr, BA Politics and International Relations At the start of the academic year, SOAS had a whopping zero political party societies. Now, just a couple of months later, it has two: SOAS Your Party Society, covered in the last issue of the Spirit; and now, the SOAS Young
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Kaitlyn Prince, Photographer, BA Politics and International Relations Ferrari entered Formula One’s 75th season with real optimism, hoping to revive the legendary Scuderia legacy. With steadier leadership, a strategic upgrade strategy, and the hype of their unstoppable driver line-up, Charles Leclerc and seven-time world champion Lewis Hamilton, the year
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By Zainab Syed, Sports & Societies Staff Writer ,BA Politics and International Relations Sports betting used to be a deliberate act. A trip to the betting shop, cash in hand, fully aware you were placing a gamble. Now, it doesn’t feel like a choice at all. Betting has been
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Maaryah Rashid, Co-Deputy Editor, BA Politics and International Relations If your social media feeds are anything like mine, you would have also witnessed the frenzied excitement surrounding the first four episodes of Netflix’s Stranger Things, season five; from fan edits, to predictions for the next four episodes, to endless
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Amy Kan, Co-deputy Editor, BA International Relations and Japanese In case you haven’t been caught up with the rest of Britain, the first season of The Celebrity Traitors (The Traitors spinoff) was finalised November 6 (2025). 19 celebrities gathered, with Claudia Winkleman appointing three of them as traitors. A
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Chinaza Iwe, Culture Section Editor, BA History & World Philosophies Body positivity and inclusivity could be dying. But more likely it's dead and buried. 2025 seems to be the year of post woke culture. With the rise of Ozempic and Mounjaro and the health concerns related to the
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Lina Kabbour, Culture Staff Writer, BA Politics and International Relations Netflix has recently released a new film adaptation of the literary classic Frankenstein, directed by Guillermo del Toro. Del Toro investigates the theme of prejudice through the mistreatment of the Creature played by Jacob Elordi. The scars on the Creature