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Image Description: a closed bar front with ‘Roddy’s Bar’ written on it and graffiti reading ‘stay home, thank you NHS, save lives’ PROPOSITION (Ciara Garcha) A 1918 Red Cross advert in the Washington Times recommended the use of “gauze mask(s) to halt the spread of the plague.” At the beginning of what would turn out […]
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Image Description: A picture of Starmer sat alone on the front benches of the House of Commons. Whilst the right vilifies Keir Starmer as ‘captain hindsight,’ perpetually vacillating as the government vaccinates and the left lambasts him for the absence of a vision, it is easy to forget that Starmer has made a promising start. […]
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Image description: Former Foreign Secretary and MP Boris Johnson with his brother Leo Johnson On the 24th May 2019, Theresa May, after much speculation, tearfully announced her resignation as the leader of the Conservative Party, firing the starting pistol in a race that looks to have a crowded field. Boris Johnson is the clear bookies’ […]
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Image Description: Leicester town hall, one of the mayoralties contested in the election The 2019 UK local elections have presented voters, election-watchers and newspaper pundits with an interesting set of results to pore over: from over 248 councils electing councillors on Thursday, the Conservatives have lost over 1200 councillors, with the main beneficiaries being the […]
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One year ago Theresa May was crowned new leader of the Conservatives, hailed as the Margaret Thatcher incarnate who would serve as a safe pair of hands during a period of Brexit-fuelled uncertainty. But now she is engulfed by a political maelstrom. Though Tory MPs pretend they believe in May as their party leader, the […]
Continue ReadingTo those following the government debates on access to internet pornography, the announcement of an opt-in porn filter will not surprise, but may disappoint. David Cameron has been hinting that he’d throw this red meat to a social conservative base greatly disappointed in their Conservative Prime Minister legalising same-sex marriage. Yet this illiberal move should […]
Continue ReadingCameron’s speech on immigration last week was disturbing, to say the least.
Continue ReadingTories veto Cable’s preferred candidate for head of OFFA
Continue ReadingOUCA has been thrown into turmoil after allegations of anti-Semitic singing, debauched behaviour and cronyism
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