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The Quest to Decolonise the UK National Curriculum

The Quest to Decolonise the UK National Curriculum

By Fisayo Eniolorunda, BA Politics & African Studies I remember getting up at 7 A.M. as a teenager doing my GCSE’s, which at the time felt like the most tiresome quest of all. A sequence that often began with me groaning at the piercing sound of my alarm

On the shallowness and ignorance of present-day environmental activists

On the shallowness and ignorance of present-day environmental activists

By Rose Sauvage de Brantes, BA English and Japanese “What can a group of children possibly know about science?”- “Speeches are nice but it won’t help to change the world. Go back to school.” and “It’s too late now”. Those are the comments one can frequently find

Understanding the fires in Australia.

Understanding the fires in Australia.

By Yasmin Elsouda, BA International Relations The world watched in shock as a landscape larger than Belgium caught fire across New South Wales and Victoria in Australia. 80 people were killed not far from there in Indonesia, by flooding and landslides, the worst the country has seen since 2007. East

Joker

Joker: A Compelling Yet Fragmented Sad-Clown-to-Mad-Clown Story

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.

Iraq demonstration

Endless Arab Spring?

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

Pride @ SOAS

LGBTQ+ Network renamed amid ‘Queer’ controversy

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

Emmerson Mnangagwa

Zimbabwe: hopes fade as economic crisis worsens

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