Opinion

By Weronika Krupa, BA International Relations and Chinese CW: Abortion Protesting is the daily bread of Polish citizens. Practised for generations, once against the communist regime, today against a fascist government. We know what it feels like to lose – to lose your rights, your freedoms, your pride, or your hope.

By Javier Vidal Cano (BA: Chinese Studies) On 15 November 2020, 15 nations (among them China, South Korea, Japan and Australia) signed the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) at the virtual ASEAN summit. The advent of such a symbolic deal in the current global climate may have groundbreaking implications for

By Samia Majid, MA History The U.S. has an unsavoury history of leveraging surveillance campaigns on its unsuspecting Muslim populace. On 16 November, Vice’s Motherboard revealed that Muslim Pro, a popular Quran and prayer app, has been selling its user data to third-party brokers, and by extension the

By Kat Brown, MA Chinese Studies When art occupies public space, it is prone to being picked apart. For Maggi Hambling’s statue, dedicated to the ‘Mother of feminism’, 18th century gender equality activist Mary Wollstonecraft, the debate centres around Hambling’s depiction of the vindication of women’s rights.

By Diva Sinha, MSc Environment, Politics and Development On 17 November, former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn was reinstated to the Labour Party. Corbyn was suspended in October after he commented that the scale of antisemitism within the party had been ‘overstated.’ This came after the Equality and Human Rights Commission

By Tamilore Ogunyemi, BA Politics and Economics In an uncanny resemblance to the protests that resulted in the declaration of Nigerian independence exactly 60 years ago, Nigerians have raised their voices once again to unite in a fight for our future. Protests have sprung up across the country and amongst