politics

Mike Wong  In September 2022, Shell made over $43.3 billion in record profits. The large profits mostly came from the surge in energy prices, particularly in oil and gas due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, where prices increased mainly due to oil and gas sanctions imposed on Russia....

Mike Wong Deepfakes are videos of a certain individual whose face or body has been altered to typically spread claims, information or statements that are not true, and in a way, is designed to manipulate or deceive the other people watching the video clip into believing that what is...

Poppy Read-Pitt Let’s cast our minds back to this time last year, January 2022. This month, like all of the months before it, was largely dominated by news of Covid which -for the sake of our collective sanities- I won’t recount. I’ll instead focus on another devastating blow from...

Catrin Hadaway Matt Hancock recently appeared in an interview with Good Morning Britain on ITV, where he was grilled by presenters about the small amount of money that he donated to charity after featuring on ‘I’m a Celebrity… Get me Out of Here!’ Following Hancock’s exit from the jungle,...

The Battle of Bakhmut, which began on 1st August 2022, was a military battle between the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. The battle was started when Russian troops attempted to seize the small town of Bakhmut, but failed. Many news organisations, think...

Mike Wong looks at what has happened to Ukrainian refugees in the UK....

Over the last two days lecturers across the University have been striking as part of a national University and Colleges Union (UCU) action, demanding better pensions, pay and conditions from their institutions. Simultaneously the University of Nottingham Students Union (UoNSU) held a referendum, asking students what their official position...