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The Commons Reject Labour Amendment to Ensure the Reunion of Child Refugees

The Commons Reject Labour Amendment to Ensure the Reunion of Child Refugees

By Ryan David Prosser, BA Chinese (Modern and classical) The commitment to reunite child refugees with family members living in the UK after Brexit has been dropped from the EU withdrawal bill, after MPs voted against it with 348 votes to 252. The proposals to guarantee the settlement of an

Renewed Support for Demilitarise SOAS Campaign

Renewed Support for Demilitarise SOAS Campaign

By Will Durrant, BA History. The Students’ Union has renewed its support for the Demilitarise SOAS campaign.In a statement sent to members of the Students’ Union earlier this month, Youssra Elmagboul said that the Union finds any partnership between SOAS and the Ministry of Defence (MOD) ‘unacceptable.’ The Union

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

Samira Ahmed wins equal-pay battle against BBC

Samira Ahmed wins equal-pay battle against BBC

By Ludovica Longo, BA Geography & Politics. ‘No woman wants to have to take action against their own employer,’ but sadly that is what Newswatch presenter Samira Ahmed had to do by filing a lawsuit against the BBC in October 2019. After she became aware of Points of View presenter

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

The repercussion of Soleimani’s assassination

The repercussion of Soleimani’s assassination

By Rose-Aymone Sauvage de Brante, BA English and Japanese An estimated crowd of one million people filled the streets of Tehran on 6 January, many displaying pictures of late Major General Soleimani. As Iran mourned the assassination of one of its most senior military figures, the world debated the audacity

ICC opens investigation into Israeli war crimes.

ICC opens investigation into Israeli war crimes.

By Samia Majid. MA History Chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Fatou Bensouda, has opened an investigation into Israeli war crimes. These crimes will be investigated in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. According to UN Resolutions, the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and Gaza, have been illegally occupied by