On January 1, Zohran Mamdani was inaugurated as the next mayor of New York City, making history as the city’s first Muslim mayor and the first South Asian to hold office in a century. In his inaugural speech, he vowed to govern “expansively and audaciously” and has since built up...
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We can’t end the year without yet another ominous announcement about Russia’s advance. As 2025 draws to a close, we’ve seen state officials become increasingly comfortable with reigniting national anxieties to guide policy. Chief of the Defence Staff Sir Richard Knighton has said that the UK needs “more people being...
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The much-anticipated socialist Your Party conference got underway on 29 November in Liverpool, with all the promise of a new left-wing force ready to challenge Labour from the grassroots. Instead, the whole thing descended into a debacle so self-inflicted it might have been mistaken for a parody. A movement once...
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A decade after the Paris Agreement set almost 200 countries on a path to limit global heating to 1.5°C, COP30 opened on November 10 in Belém, Brazil, with a packed schedule, offering another opportunity for a coherent multilateral response to climate change. But this year, the climate summit that was...
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The University of Warwick has received a £10 million donation from alumnus Tim Hartnoll to establish a new research centre focused on sustainable energy technology. The Hartnoll Centre for Experimental Fuel Technologies will bring together leading scientists and engineers to address the challenge of creating and storing energy sustainably. The...
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Many of us fondly remember Disney Channel and Nickelodeon in their prime – the thrill of tuning into new episodes of our favourite shows, cringing at the silly storylines, or finding instant comfort in those familiar laugh tracks that played every 30 seconds. Whether it was our iconic character favourites...
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US President Donald Trump once again made headlines with another grand announcement on Monday 29 September that felt like a strange mix of campaign rally theatrics and a sales pitch. This time, Mr ‘Big, Beautiful’ Deals showed off a 20-point “peace plan” for Gaza from the White House, beside an...
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