Opinion
Is brat Summer Over?
“Brat, as an identity, has seeped into the US presidential election, with Charli XCX tweeting ‘kamala IS brat’
Opinion
Opinion
Elections: the Ultimate Representation of Democracy or a Show?
‘In recent years, people have been driven to vote against someone rather than for someone.’
Opinion
A Status Quo of Genocide
‘There is a very strong status quo, but that status quo is enabling genocide and therefore it needs to go’
Opinion
The Lucrative Fetishisation of Palestine
By Anonymous This activism presents itself as benevolent and kind, combined with brazen virtue signalling constantly putting itself on display. From having the Palestine Society informally led by a white president during the previous academic year to the newly elected SU Co-Presidents capitalising on their so-called activism for Palestine, I
Opinion
Braverman’s far-right journalist crusade
By Roxanna Brealey, BA History and Politics On the 8th of November, Suella Braverman wrote an opinion piece in The Times, in which she branded the Met Police as “biased” towards Palestine protestors and against right-wing protestors. Consequently, she was fired for breaking the ministerial code as she wrote the
Opinion
Sunak’s Transphobia Should Be No Surprise to the British Press - Their Transphobia Is Equally Damning
By Lilac Carr, BA Politics and International Relations The British press has been in unprecedented shock about the cruel transphobic ‘jokes’ made by PM Rishi Sunak in Parliament while the mother of Brianna Ghey, the 15-year-old trans girl recently murdered in a transphobia-motivated attack, was scheduled to be in Parliament.
Opinion
The Restructuring of My Course Was a Disgrace
By Ella Dorn, BA Chinese and Linguistics It’s in vogue to complain about Adam Habib. He sterilised the SU bar and cracked down on campus security. Nobody mentions the elephant in the room – the academic side of his reign. In the summer of 2020, almost every SOAS course was
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Critique: The Choice of Feminism
By Aiesha Akenzua, LLB Law As women, our individual choices do not and cannot exist in a vacuum, and the belief that they do is contradictory to the purpose of feminism and as a result, is detrimental to female solidarity. It should go without saying that feminism should not be
Opinion
Maybe SOAS ain’t so bad
By Archie Thomas, BA Politics and International Relations Amidst the stress of deadlines, the dreams and fears for what comes after uni, and near-daily annoyances at the misguided management of SOAS, the overriding feelings in my third and final year at SOAS have been of sentimentality and fondness. This confluence
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Strike a Pose: The Manipulation of Black Models
By Aiesha Akenzua, Opinions Section Editor Opportunity for Black models within the modelling industry has been a persistent topic in the media for decades. In an industry seemingly built for the Kate Mosses and Cindy Crawfords of the world, representation of those whose appearances were antithetical to that of the
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Forgetting Windrush: The Quiet Violence of British Immigration Policy
By Aminah Hashmi, BA Politics and International Relations We remember the Windrush scandal as the moment when the consequences of the ‘hostile environment’ immigration policies of the Tory government were pushed to the headlines in 2017. If you don’t remember, the scandal revolved around the Home Office mislabelling people
Opinion
SOAS’ Confused Management
By Barty Roberts, SOAS News Editor There seems to be an ever-growing chasm between the students and management at SOAS. Nothing encapsulates this more than SOAS investing more than £2 million in companies that support the Netanyahu-led Israeli regime. The SOAS student body prides itself on its opposition to the