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Gaia Tan, BA Development Studies and Social Anthropology
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SOAS Newsletter 12/12/2025
Welcome to the first SOAS Spirit Newsletter of this academic year! Our team of staff writers have been hard at work to keep you up to date with any recent developments that might have otherwise escaped your attention. This edition includes student demonstrations, the recent overhaul of the UK’s
Imperial Amnesia on Remembrance Day
Salsabeel Yasir, BA History and International Relations Every November, as Remembrance Day approaches, debates over the red poppy resurface. As poppies appear on lapels, so do controversies surrounding them. These criticisms have inspired the rise of the alternative white poppy, created by a pacifist movement to remember all victims of
Why SOAS Speaks Loudly for Some, and Quietly for Others
Will O’Donnell, BA Politics and International Relations It’s been an odd year for student expression at SOAS. The shadow of Haya Adam’s expulsion, in combination with the Injunction and various disciplinary mechanisms surrounding student protest, still looms. It is interesting, then, beyond our campus, that repression against
It’s Not All Reform: The Illusion of Domination in a Time of Plurality
Luc Cadwaladr-Evans, BA International Relations and Languages and Cultures We’re often told that, as a result of its skyrocketing into the number one spot in UK party opinion polls, Reform UK has recently and unprecedentedly become the most likely contender to win a general election, if it maintains its