On Sunday 2nd February 2025, Arsenal men’s beat reigning champions Manchester City 5-1 in the Premier League. It would be expected that the impressive result and performance from Arsenal, or perhaps the lacklustre performance and embarrassing result for Manchester City, would be the key talking points following the game. Rather,...
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My friend once told me something that I think perfectly sums up the discussion surrounding the US banned books list. It’s easier to control information than it is to control people. Book banning is nothing new, having recurred throughout American history (for example the McCarthy era and the early 1980s)....
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Generation Z has not known a time without a phone. Landlines beside the door of a childhood home, mobiles in the hands of working parents, telephone boxes dotted between village greens or local shops. Two of these I have watched die. The once-polished red telephone boxes have become a hub...
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Last week, I compiled a list of the least romantic books I could find in a semblance of protest against Valentine’s Day. This week, however, I’m leaning into the love and embracing my inner hopeless romantic. Romantic comedies are one of my favourite and most-read genres, and I’ve thoroughly enjoyed...
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Last year came to a close with a bang, quite literally, as the highly-anticipated hit thriller Squid Game came to Netflix with a brand-new season on December 26 2024. The season picked up right where it left off at Incheon International Airport, where Seong Gi-Hun (Lee Jung-jae), formerly Player 456...
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When I was ten, my art teacher told me about a legend: A formidable warrior, the admiral of Sultan Mahmud Shah, fought for Johor-Riau during the Portuguese occupation of Melaka (modern-day Malacca). His name was Hang Nadim. Admiring his bravery, Sultan Mahmud had given him a task: sail to India...
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Mohammed Ben Sulayem, former rally driver and president of the FIA since December 2021, recently announced a new regulation crackdown on ‘driver conduct’ for the upcoming 2025 Formula 1 season. In these new regulations, the FIA define an offence as ‘any words, deeds or writing that have caused moral injury...
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The NFL announced this week that its continued efforts to expand the game of American Football will reach Spain for the first time next year, with the Miami Dolphins confirmed as hosts of the inaugural Spanish NFL game at the Santiago Bernabeu in Madrid. With this move, the NFL adds...
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The transition to a new year excites many of us. It is a fresh opportunity to do things differently and, perhaps, for the first time, accomplish a long-postponed New Year’s resolution. Unlike a bachelor’s, a master’s is an intensive one-year programme with a heavier workload I recently completed the first...
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Not many political advisors ever reach public awareness. Normally they dwell in small offices in Downing Street or government departments, scurrying through the corridors of Westminster or standing silently, shadow-like, behind a Minister or Shadow Cabinet member. In fact, it is often said that once an advisor becomes the story,...
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In the pick of this weekend’s FA Cup fourth-round ties, Arne Slot’s high-flying Liverpool made the nearly three hundred-mile trip south to Home Park to face Championship strugglers Plymouth Argyle. Liverpool deserved their premature cup exit just as much as Plymouth did their victory In what will go down as...
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The US presidency has undergone many dramatic overhauls as the country approaches its 250th birthday. Yet, from the first founding fathers, to Trump’s historic non-consecutive terms, one thing has been constant: the presidential portrait. From the manner in which a new president presents himself in the official portrait (I use...
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A major spike in mental illness among young people has prompted politicians to claim that fake “fashionable disorders” are to blame. The Mental Health Bill, currently being debated in the House of Lords, seeks to make provisions to amend the 1983 Mental Health Act to modernise language concerning people with...
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