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Author: Nicholas Linfoot

‘Sexminster’ proves that Parliament remains a toxic environment

17th November 2017Nicholas Linfoot

It isn’t often I agree with Laura Pidcock, the outspoken Labour MP for North West Durham, but in the midst of the Westminster sex scandal(s) I am inclined to review the words of her maiden speech. In this rather blunt polemic she noted of Parliament: “This building is intimidating, it reeks of the establishment, and […]

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Make America safe again: how many more mass shootings will there have to be before we see change?

16th November 2017Cherelle Malongo

A lone gunman fires into a public space, killing innocent victims caught in the wrong place at the wrong time. The next day the nation mourns the victims. ‘Never again’ people say; never again will families have to wake up to the news that their loved ones have been taken away from them. Sound familiar? […]

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Oxford Council’s proposed car ban: expensive, futile, and unnecessary

16th November 2017Lucy Clay

Data released by the World Health Organisation last year showed that Oxford was one of 11 British cities to breach the limits set for toxic particles known as PM10s – now the city council has decided it is time for a change. In response to this rise in air pollution, the council has announced its […]

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As Kevin Spacey’s house of cards collapses, he hides behind homosexuality

16th November 2017Tony Wilkes

Another facet to the sexual abuse and harassment scandal sweeping through the entertainment industry (and beyond) emerged recently in a BuzzFeed article. The piece contained allegations from the openly gay actor, Anthony Rapp, against the two-time Oscar winning, House of Cards star, Kevin Spacey. During a party in Spacey’s apartment in 1986 when Rapp was […]

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Saudi Arabia’s shifting religious policy: why you should care

16th November 201725th September 2018DK Bose

There was a time – the early 2000s to be exact – when the fact that the only country the State of Qatar shared a land border with was Saudi Arabia, was a cause for amusement not consternation. Although the tiny peninsular nation could not compare – yet – to the lavish spread that life […]

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Why do we undervalue junior academics by paying them so little?

18th October 2017Tom Gould

Not one to miss a passing bandwagon, Universities Minister Jo Johnson was quick to make hay out of the controversy over vice-chancellors’ gold plated salaries in early September. Their soaring pay is a “real embarrassment for our higher education sector”, according to Johnson, justifying new plans which will see universities required to publish details of […]

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Charlottesville shows us why we still need RMF

16th October 2017John Aggrey Odera

Recent violence in Charlottesville, VA, caused by the clashing of white Neo-Nazis and Antifa, the far left anti-fascist group, have proven false the “Post-racial” bubble that some white Americans choose to live in. I use the phrase “proven false” quite ironically, because you would be hard-pressed to find a POC living in America right now […]

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