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By Louisa Johnson, MA Global Creative and Cultural Industries It’s a Sin, Russell T Davies’ Channel 4 hit is a heartbreaking tale of the global HIV and AIDS epidemic and its devastating effects on gay urban life from 1981 to 1991. Originally rejected by BBC One, ITV, and even
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By Eliza Bacon, MA Global Media and Communications 2021 really has been the year of Facebook; the year of reckoning with the role it plays in our lives, and what little we can do about it. Why ‘year’ when we’re only in the early months of 2021? Because I
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By Rehman Khokhar, BA Chinese and Korean A recent report by the BBC found that in the first half of 2020 more people were killed as a result of police violence in the Brazilian state of Rio de Janeiro than in all of the United States put together. 75% of
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By Aaron Chen, BA Law and Chinese The model minority myth is the stereotype that ESEA (East and Southeast Asian) diaspora are, amongst other attributes, the hardest working, most successfully assimilated and least threatening minority group. Yet given the rise of anti-ESEA hate crimes occurring all over the world, the
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By Abdul Basit, BA International Relations and Economics Universal accountability or faceless justice has long constituted the utopian daydreams of philosophers and international theorists alike. Plato talked about it and so did More. The closest we have come to realise such an aspiration is undoubtedly the founding of the International
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By Fakhriya M. Suleiman, MA Global Media and Postnational Communication In 1996 The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order was published. Therein, Samuel P. Huntington foresaw collective religious identity and culture as being the locus of future conflict to come. According to Huntington, ‘Western Civilisation’ would encompass
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By Zahra Jawad, BA Politics and Economics *Content warning: surgical procedures and medical negligence* If 2021 has shown us anything, it is the incredible capacity for clinical innovations at the heart of modern medicine. Several Covid-19 vaccines, developed with cutting-edge technology, have been approved and widely manufactured in just a
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By Zaynab Mufti, BA International Relations and History We Brits are known for our pride in our values and freedoms. No matter the stake and no matter whose neck is stepped on, all is fair as long as our freedoms are upheld – right? It seems our government thinks so too.
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By Sophie Zwick, BA Politics and International Relations As vaccine rollouts begin in earnest all over the world, Thai authorities and hotel chains have called for quarantine exemptions for vaccinated travellers. However, the devastating consequences of the shuttered tourist industry have been most painfully felt among its most vulnerable workers
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By Camila Consolmagno & Frederick Thelen, LLB & BA International Relations Recently, the state of Texas suffered through a historical event already being termed the ‘2021 Texas Power Crisis.’ This, however, fails to convey the scale of the crisis. Energy in Texas is managed on a state level as it
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By Nour Abu-Ismail BA Korean Studies and Development On 16 June 2021, Karim Ahmad Khan will begin his nine-year term as the newly elected Chief Prosecutor at the International Criminal Court (ICC). Electing the third Chief Prosecutor of the ICC was both lengthy and discordant as member-states could not agree
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By Fakhriya M. Suleiman, MA Global Media and Postnational Communication After spending 1001 days in prison, the prominent Saudi Arabian women’s rights activist Loujain Al-Hathloul was released on 10 February 2021. In May 2018 Al-Hathloul was arrested along with other prominent Saudi activists, such as Iman al-Nafjan, Aziza al-Yousef