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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... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
Nancy Riley When asked to name her greatest achievement, Margaret Thatcher simply responded, ‘Tony Blair and New Labour.’ Thatcher strongly believed that her politics was behind the Labour Party’s sudden shift to the centre from their unionist past. In some sense, she may have been right – this version... -
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... -
Eliza Stanier As the curtain closed on this year’s Grammys, one of the most coveted and renowned events in the music industry, people were not left talking so much of the night’s award-recipients and surprise wins, but about immigration policy. In a night whose purpose was to celebrate...
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