climate change
Sebastien Brion, BA Politics and International Relations On Friday 20th of September, school students concerned about their future took to the streets in cities around the world to protest against the political inaction around climate change. Starting in Australia, and spreading to cities such as Rio de Janeiro, Mumbai, Nairobi
Books
Fisayo Eniolorunda, BA Politics and African Studies Elijah Lawal is an author and diversity activist who works for Google as PR Manager by day. His book is a definitive guide to combating racist stereotypes against the black community. A friendly and knowledgeable individual. How would you summarise the contents of
kashmir
Mahnoor Chaudhry, BSc Hons Economics and Politics Modi’s racist and narcissist policies have led to such a lack of intolerance, and extremist tendencies in his followers that they now fear even intellectual discourse and discussion, what is most alarming is that they have now even reached the UK. On
football
Rami Shamel, BA History No one is sure who first coined the phrase ‘the beautiful game’ to refer to football, but what is clear is that football and beauty are a natural pair. For your normal football connoisseur, the sport is not just as simple as hoofing a ball into
culture
Rihab Attioui, MA Postcolonial Studies Rating: 3.9/5 From the over-saturated and over-decade long reign of the superhero genre emerges: ‘Joker’. Todd Phillips’ ‘Joker’ is a film that, for many die-hard fans, signals a long-awaited (and somewhat holier-than-thou) return to the niche sub-cultural status – where the genre supposedly belongs.
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Arzu Abbasova, BA International Relations Again, we are faced with a scenario akin to the Arab Spring almost 8 years later but with the new youth. Recently, the Middle East has been convulsed by growing protests in several countries, namely Egypt, Lebanon and Iraq. In Egypt, protests erupted in response
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Will Durrant, BA History I hate the word due to past homophobic abuse, so cringe every time I see it and never use it to describe myself. Students in the Queer Network, voted “overwhelmingly” to change the group’s name to Pride @ SOAS in an online poll. This result comes
economics
Josh Mock, BA Arabic and Persian The UN estimates that half of Zimbabwe’s population of 8.5 million will be food insecure by 2020. Hopes that the President of Zimbabwe, Emmerson Mnangagwa, can bring about economic renewal to the south African nation are dwindling after the country’s annual
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Ruth Wetters, BA Chinese (Modern & Classical) “The struggle of Goldsmiths University is a universal struggle” GARA After a long-running anti-racism campaign at Goldsmiths, University of London, a report released by Goldsmiths University has revealed widespread experiences of racism among students of colour. Roughly 45% of Goldsmiths students are from
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Will Durrant, BA History SOAS Director Valerie Amos will step down next summer to take the top spot at University College Oxford. Back in London, the search for SOAS’ next Director has already begun. Baroness Valerie Amos will leave SOAS at the end of this academic year after nearly five
brazil
Gabriel Huland, PhD Media Studies The Amazon forest in Brazil has been burning for a long time. Although we are seeing the sharpest increase of fires in years, the destruction and looting of the largest reservoir of biodiversity in the world is not a recent phenomenon. Since 2015, when the
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Gabriel Huland, PhD Media Studies At the end of April, the Brazilian government announced it would freeze 30% of the 2019 national universities budget as part of an austerity plan to reduce public spending. The cuts totalise BRL2 billion (U$500 million) and will affect discretionary spending in all 63