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Hamdan Vohra, BA Politics and International Relations The UK recognised the State of Palestine on September 21st 2025, 108 years after the 1917 Balfour Declaration, which promised Palestine as ‘a national home for Jewish people’. In a video statement on X, the Prime Minister said, ‘In the face of the
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Sylvie Topps, LLB LAW In late July this year, British politics witnessed what could be the most significant shake-up of the left since New Labour. Your Party, as it is currently known, was formed by former Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn and Coventry South MP Zarah Sultana, alongside four other
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Manal Husain, BA Politics and International Relations Haya Adam, a Law and International Relations student, joined SOAS University in September 2023. She is the President of the Palestine Society and prominent member of the Liberated Zone (LZ). On the 6th of August, SOAS expelled Haya Adam for supposedly breaking the
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James Albero, BA International Relations Zhang Yadi (Tara), a 22-year-old Master’s student from Changsha, China, was offered a scholarship to study Anthropology at SOAS and was prepared to start at the beginning of this academic year. She had friends in London excited to show her around - but instead,
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Majidah Chowdhury, National News Section Editor On Wednesday the 17th of September, an estimated 5000 demonstrators, including more than 50 charities and unions, assembled at Portland Place to protest against President Donald Trump’s second state visit to the UK. Organised by the Stop Trump Coalition, attendees marched through Piccadilly
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Roxanna Brealey, Editor-in-Chief, History & Politics. SOAS University has fallen 27 places in the Guardian 2026 University rankings, resulting in an overall institutional score of 39.5/100. The Guardian University league table compares 123 universities, SOAS now ranks in position 117. This is a significant decline in position from
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Anonymous On the 9th of December 2024, the 20th Central Committee Politburo of the CCP held its 18th collective study session, presided over by Xi Jinping. During this meeting, XI reiterated his vision for an ethnically harmonious state. Stating that his party has to focus on “continu[ing] to deepen
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Camilla Taylor, Junior Reporter, BA International Relations Is left-wing politics losing relevance in the face of rising right-wing populism? In recent years, far-right populism has surged across the continent, reshaping national debates, redefining political parties, and challenging the once dominant left. From Ger many to Italy, the far right has
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Roxanna Brealey, Senior Sub-Editor, BA History and Politics Malcolm Caldwell joined SOAS University as a history lecturer in 1959 until his death in 1978. Caldwell appeared to be a pretty typical SOAS lecturer with appraisals across the board. A former student of his, Ian Brown, claimed that he was ‘loved
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Jacob Winter, Senior Staff Writer, BA Politics and International Relations SOAS has long been recognised for its expertise in Asian and African studies, offering some of the most knowledgeable academics in these fields. Many of these scholars came directly from the British colonial service, which possessed some of the few
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Kenza Bajjar, BA Politics and International Relations Politicians have, historically, always had a bad reputation. Deceitful, corrupt, and conniving, more often than not in media, they’ve been portrayed in the role of the villain—using bureaucracy and their position of power to prevent the realisation of justice. Despite their,
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Jack Samuel Griffin, MA Middle Eastern Studies Translator’s Note Liquid Skies is initially a story about a family, tracing its genealogy from rural French bourgeoisie to cosmopolitan Parisian intelligentsia. Our protagonist is the embodied representation of this displacement: throughout their adolescence, they were sent abroad by their parents to