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Jamie Carey For decades, the United States has enjoyed a remarkable advantage in the global economy: the dominance of the United States dollar (USD) as the world’s reserve currency. That status has given Washington extraordinary financial flexibility. Because the dollar sits at the centre of the global financial system,...
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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...
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Aimee Goldblum The final season of Netflix’s Stranger Things saw Will Byers come out as gay, and while this isn’t the show’s first attempt at such a scene, the backlash has been intense and widespread. Despite Robin’s poignant coming out in season 3, which garnered praise from queer and...
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Max Stephanou On 3 January 2026, US forces carried out a military operation which removed the Venezuelan President, Nicolas Maduro, from power. This latest act of aggressive American foreign policy was justified by President Donald Trump, claiming Maduro was an ‘outlaw dictator’ and that America will instead ‘run the...
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Josie Nasmyth-Miller With recent tragic events, such as the Bondi Beach Massacre, which targeted a Hanukkah celebration and the shooting at Brown University in Rhode Island, it would be easy to add Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, more commonly known as Tommy Robinson, and his ‘Unite for Christ this Christmas’ campaign to...
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Emma Burgess Lily Allen’s latest album, ‘West End Girl’ is her first album in seven years. The album was written in 10 days and provides painstakingly intimate insight into her marriage to ‘Stranger Things’ actor David Harbour. Allen spares no details; her lyrics depict a brutal timeline, from...
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Robert O’Connor I probably commute about three to four times a term between my hometown, Winchester, and Nottingham. Often, I have to change trains two or three times for one journey, and I consider it something of a miracle if none of these trains are delayed. God forbid a...