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By Azeem Rajulawalla Another year, another Marvel movie (or three). Luckily for us, Thor: Ragnarok is a crowd-pleaser that doesn’t feel weighed down by the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s 16 preceeding films. What distinguishes this film is its director Taika Waititi, the New Zealander best known for recent indie
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Interviews conducted and edited by Indigo Lilburn-Quick (BA History and Politics) With Spain in turmoil after the Catalan referendum we asked 4 people invested in the situation their opinion. For information on what’s happening in Catalonia please see the article. The author would like to thank all those interviewed
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Why do you think you were asked to speak for #QuestionsInTheAtrium? Because I have the shtick…Many of our students come through the English system – you learn a lot about Henry VIII, or Hitler. The first time I taught Global History was in 1999; it was then that all the
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How long have you been giving out food for? I’ve been doing this for like fifteen years. What made you start doing it? We try to present healthy food and it’s also helping the students and the people. We usually feed a thousand people every day, from the
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By V. A. DOUGLAS Amongst the heaving crowd of pulsating blue and searchlight red, I was there. I was a woolen jumper in a sea of cotton singlets, a head of blonde hair amongst baseball caps. My eyes scanned the vastness of the place, its bare torsos and clambering limbs,
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By Austyn Close (BA History and International Relations) The Trump vs. Kim scenario is a constantly unfolding war of words between the two leaders. In recent weeks, we have heard exchanges that have ruffled the feathers of the two strong-minded and aggressive figureheads. One-liner tag lines have been regurgitated through
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Who: Hi! We are Hayah (President), Fatima (PR Director) and Michael (Events Director) What: The Self-Empowerment Society is new to SOAS and we’re here to help you with your personal development- and to build your confidence in the long term. Where: A round table discussion on a student chosen
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The SOAS Spirit is back! The SOAS Spirit is your independent student-run newspaper which has had an on campus presence since 1936. The Spirit is picking up where we left off and holding those in positions of power accountable and producing content which students will find informative, thought provoking and
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By Ali Mitib (BA Law and Politics) On 4th August 2017, Paula Sanderson, the Registrar of SOAS, notified the Student Union that SOAS will ‘stop outsourcing its core support services to private contractors from September 2018’. In contrast to the previous plans of SOAS management to bring only the cleaners
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By Hannah Somerville (MA Arabic Literature) Calls for clarity were issued last week as SOAS squares up to a deepening financial crisis. The university is facing a £4.7m projected deficit this year and its executive board has been tasked with finding at least £3m of savings between now and
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By Lucy Beach (BA History) Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi has come under scrutiny in recent months from the international community over the violence of the army towards the Rohingya people of the Rakhine state in Myanmar. Ethnic tensions between the Buddhist majority and the Rohingya have
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By Tom Matsuda (BA International Relations and Japanese) The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has released a report saying that higher tax rates would not necessarily harm economic growth rates in major economies. Moreover, the Washington-based international organisation has also stated that this would reduce the high levels of economic inequality