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Putin’s arrogance will be his downfall

Putin’s arrogance will be his downfall

Yun Hin Choi, BA History and Politics The past several weeks have marked the international carnival where we’ve seen the world’s leaders gather for a number of lavish occasions, kicked off by the Asian-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in China and ended with the G20 meeting in Brisbane,

Not just filling blank space

Not just filling blank space

Miriam Hicklin, BA Arabic and Persian I have recently embarked upon a journey that has necessitated my being fearless in the face of judgement, throwing away my old inhibitions, and falling in love with Taylor Swift’s music. Blank Space is the killer track on the new album 1989 – mocking

In Defence of the Fence

In Defence of the Fence

Kenneth Noronha, LLB (Law) Here’s a sweeping, potentially controversial, and wholly amusing statement: people who exist on political extremes do so only because they have no sense of perspective. No, the Tories aren’t all trying to steal your welfare to build estates made of gilded peasant children. By

'We'll keep demanding our cleaners are brought in-house'

Shadia Edwards-Dashti, Msc International Politics SOAS Justice for Cleaners (J4C) re-launched their campaign this year with a series of successful events over the past week. Over 40 students mobilised outside SOAS yesterday, for a protest against the exploitation of the cleaners, urging the SOAS management to directly hire and bring

Response to: Does the Political Correctness of Students' Unions Undermine their Decisions?

Response to: Does the Political Correctness of Students' Unions Undermine their Decisions?

Sai Englert, NUS PGR rep When I saw Luke McManus’ piece, Does the Political Correctness of Students’ Unions Undermine their Decisions? in the online edition of the SOAS Spirit, I almost stopped reading there and then. The juxtaposition of an attack on the ‘Political Correctness’ of unions with a picture

Does the Political Correctness of Students' Unions Undermine their Decisions?

Does the Political Correctness of Students' Unions Undermine their Decisions?

Luke McManus, BA Arabic and Social Anthropology I quite like the idea of a Students’ Union. Knowing that I can have a say in the affairs of my university makes me feel included, valued and proud of what we are – a fantastically diverse body of students that can democratically achieve

Fight for the Faces Behind Our Food

Harriet Freeman, Bsc Economics In our world today it’s becoming increasingly easy and common to isolate human input from economic activity. While commerce has been digesting the leaps and bounds we have made digitally since the late 1970s, consumer service has, in many cases, morphed into arms-length automated assistance.