• Theatre performance

    Who is Timothée Chalamet to Judge?

    Calista Kiloh Timothée Chalamet recently said in an interview that he doesn’t want to be working in ballet or opera and that it’s kept alive even though no one cares about them anymore. For someone who has been immersed in the arts much of his life and now sits...
  • Writer Haiden with some of their friends

    International Women’s Day: Peace and Bread, or Putting Profit Ahead?

    Haiden Allsopp   With International Women’s Day (IWD) just behind us, and the recent release of Louis Theroux’s ‘Inside the Manosphere’, which critiques influencers who promote misogynistic ideals, it is increasingly important to reflect on the history of International Women’s Day. These growing misogynistic spaces on social media and...
  • Gulf War Three

    Oscar McKevitt Flack War is once again raging across the Middle East. And once again, America is unnecessarily at war in the Gulf. The first Gulf War, in 1991, saw America assemble a coalition to eject the army of Saddam Hussein, who was occupying Kuwait. This was a time...
  • Students talking on a university campus

    The Cultural Loneliness of International Students

    Sejal Shirgavkar While trying to figure out what to do with my degree and perhaps my life, I found myself thinking about something we rarely treat as serious: loneliness. Not dramatic loneliness, not the kind that announces itself loudly, but the quiet kind that hides behind the busy lecture...
  • UK Parliament

    Centrism in an Age of Populism: How it Will Still Decide the Next Election

    Jamie Carey Sir Tony Blair once argued that “the route to the summit lies through the centre ground”. Having won three elections with New Labour, he perhaps had a point. For much of the past three decades, success in British politics has appeared to depend on capturing the political...
  • Silohuetted couple at sunset

    Exploring the darker side of Britain’s most well-known dating show

    Evangeline Scott I must admit reality TV is my guilty pleasure. I like the escape of watching someone else’s drama for a bit; it seems to put my problems into perspective. Nothing achieves this more than Love Island, with its 8-week summer run (and, in recent years, a second...
  • British flag on a fence.

    Energy bills, Labour and A Great British Failure 

    Jamie Carey Ten months ago, the United Kingdom was a very different place. Keir Starmer’s government hadn’t found its purpose yet. Some would say it still hasn’t. Somehow, Kemi Badenoch has managed to become even more irrelevant than she was back then. For the first time, Nigel Farage had...