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By Ella Dorn, BA Chinese and Linguistics The limerick, compact but sprightly, is my favourite verse form. I have previously written them in dead languages and submitted others to various anonymous Facebook pages; I even had to be stopped from writing my UCAS personal statement in limerick format. This week,
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By William Tod, BA English A gentle, soothing, siren song? Shattered memory, hidden deep, Hazy horizons of Hedges’ hoarse, The anxieties of the day collapse, All is a calm, cooling current. Cliches crumble as my soul dances In sibilance, silence suppressed By your phantasmagoric form. “The wave of harmony descends”
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By Nafisa Kiani, MSc Global Public Policy Working hard or hardly working? For me, a typical lockdown week involves working for the House of Commons education and engagement team and studying remotely at the same time. I have been reading a research proposal from a student and outlining its strengths
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Back to Basics By Anonymous The pandemic has irrevocably advanced the digital age: Zoom parties have become a staple fixture in our weekend plans. However, when it comes to dating, there is something very archaic about how we are having to navigate our love lives. After just one brief in-person
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By Deniz Demirag, MSc Environment, Politics and Development I want to take you on a journey to an ordinary village in Southeast Turkey. I never knew what home felt like after nomadically living in four countries and countless cities. I was in search of unknown treasure in uncharted places. Then
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By Amelia Storey, BA History In a quiet valley between ancient hills, There lived an old lady, with ancient skills. She weeded her crops, milked her goat And tended a fire which never, ever smoked. It had been burning for as long as she knew Through rain, snow and winds
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By Juan Ignacio Rubio Gorrochategui , MSc Environment, Politics and Development Costas Lapavitsas is a professor of Economics at the eponymous department at SOAS, a former MP in Greece for the socialist party Syriza and one of the leading voices lending support for Brexit among the British left. Juan Gorrochategui talks
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By Anonymous *Names have been changed to protect the identities of the protestors. I have a lot of memories from Hong Kong’s year of chaos. I vividly recall the pang of being tear-gassed for the first time, and the surprise I felt when it induced nausea. I also remember
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By Destiny Adeyemi, BA African Studies Above is a word search featuring some ways in which people can engage with political conversations and educate themselves on current issues – beyond the rhetoric of voting. ANSWER KEY:
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By Elizabeth Edwards, BA English Cooking in lockdown can either feel like a chore or a comfort. I can’t be the only one who has found my days revolving completely around the three meals a day that offer such respite and gratification, as well as the simple joy of
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By Ella Dorn, BA Chinese and Linguistics Standard Zhuang is a language spoken by some of the Zhuang minority in Guangxi province, southern China. It is a member of the Tai family of languages along with Thai and Laotian. Since 1982, it has been written in an adapted Roman script
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By Fakhriya M. Suleiman, MA Global Media and Communications My first encounter with Malcolm X was during secondary school. It was Black History Month of 2010 and my history assignment was to write about a prominent Black historical figure and discuss their impact. Being a huge Michael Jackson fan, and