Film stars on police brutality: vapid displays and authentic efforts
Sophia Stanford gives her take on whether celebrity campaigns have helped the Black Lives Matter movement or managed to hinder it instead.
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The best books of: Virginia Woolf
Evie Taylor discusses why Virgina Woolf's works of fiction and non-fiction are admirable and how we can learn so much from her refusual to conform
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Milan Fashion Week’s online collections demonstrate creativity in the execution
As Milan Fashion Week was the first of its kind to be held entirely online, Bashirat Oladele considers whether this demonstrated the creativity of high fashion brands or whether it was still inaccessible to the majority of consumers.
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British GP: Lewis Hamilton dominant despite tyre chaos
Even an exciting couple of closing laps failed to bring the British Grand Prix to life this weekend. A series of tyre failures led to what eventual winner Lewis Hamilton called “the most dramatic ending I can remember”, impacting both his teammate Valtteri Bottas and McLaren’s Carlos Sainz. The eventual...
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A-level students to have more power in choosing a university due to COVID-19
Experts are saying that current A-level students have more power in upcoming university decisions due to the effects of COVID-19.
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Untested rape kits are sitting in laboratories
More than 100,000 rape kits are currently sitting, untested, in police storage in the United States. Rape kits are boxes containing vital forensic evidence, including semen, skin cells and clothing. If the DNA on any item is found to match that of a suspect, it can lead to an arrest...
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The dangers of oversimplifying inequality in education
In the wake of the Black Lives Matter protests and campaigns across the world in recent months, the current British national curriculum has come under scrutiny for failing to adequately address issues of racial inequality and in particular, Britain’s historic role in perpetuating systematic racism across the world dating back...
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‘Mrs America’ shows how far feminism has come and still needs to go
Lucy Martin reviews the BBC historical drama 'Mrs America', praising its depiction of historical and political events of the 1970s and its strong female cast who brought the era to life.
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Liverpool unable to host 2022 Special Olympics GB National Summer Games
Liverpool City Council has announced t will be unable to host the rescheduled Special Olympics GB National Summer Games in 2022. The decision to postpone the 2021 games was made in late May, due to the Covid-19 pandemic, but having explored all the options for the Games to take place...
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Exam marks at Open University based on former students’ results causes outrage
The Open University (OU) has decided to base student exam grades on the previous results of former students.
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Anti-obesity measures: should we commend or condemn?
Two of our writers comment on the implications of the government’s new plans to tackle obesity. ‘A good start’ Following his first-hand experience of coronavirus, Boris Johnson has turned his attention to another crisis: obesity. With the threat of a second wave still looming, the general poor fitness of the...
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How lockdown has affected creative writing
Connie Bernardin shares her personal experience of writing in lockdown and how the instability of her writing habits seem to reflect these strange and unpredictable times
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Immigration, citizenship and the musical ‘other’: Rina Sawayama and the Mercury Prize Awards
Rina Sawayama's dual citizenship denies her of entry into the Mercury Prize and Brit Awards. What does this say about an industry fuelled by foreign influences and immigrant contributions?
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