From the very second that news of the Huntingdon train stabbings hit national headlines, a storm of intense speculation and theorising on the perpetrator’s ethnicity overtook the conversation. Fingers were pointed in every direction, except, of course, at the possibility that it could have been a white man. The same...
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Coventry City Council has lost a legal battle against the Home Office over a decision to house more asylum seekers in the city. The council argued that, while they welcome accommodating their fair share of asylum seekers, the burden placed on the city by the Home Office was “excessive”. They...
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The public prosecutor of Paris, Laure Beccuau, has stated that the jewellery heist at the Parisian Louvre museum in October was carried out by local petty criminals, rather than organised criminal professionals. The announcement has added to the global fascination surrounding the robbery, underlining the questions at the centre of...
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The Mayor of the West Midlands, Richard Parker, has announced a plan to increase the region’s employment rate by 5% come 2035. West Midlands Works seeks to aid the almost 500,000 economically inactive residents of the region – those who are neither in employment nor actively looking for work. The...
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“There is a genocide going on in Darfur”, a region in the west of Sudan. This was the claim made by the Sudanese Ambassador to the UK in early November. The statement came following the siege and capture of El Fasher, the capital of the Northern Darfur region, by the...
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There are many options for post-Freshers living, whether you’re rocking the Kasbah in Central Coventry, roaming the Victorian boulevards of northern Leamington, or attending village fetes in Kenilworth, the world of the West Midlands remains your oyster. However, it can be difficult to know where to settle, so we’ve gathered...
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The rekindling of historic diplomatic and trade relations between the UK and China is just the beginning of a process of reconciliation, and the herald of a future that will likely be dominated by Chinese influence. Soon, in Beijing, economic talks between the UK and China will be held for...
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A police community support officer was called to a pro-Palestine protest outside the University’s STEM Careers Fair on Thursday, in a month that has seen an expansion of UK police powers to deal with repeat protests. The new powers, brought in on 5 October, were described by UK Home Secretary...
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