19th February 2020
Lucia Posteraro Multimedia Editor Following The Guardian’s findings that the UK counter-terrorism police included Extinction Rebellion in their Prevent strategy, Lucia Posteraro explores how this poses risk to our society. The Guardian’s findings that the UK counter-terrorism police included Extinction Rebellion in their Prevent strategy sparked outrage online. The document appears to ha...
19th February 2020
Emily Hay Culture Editor What an oligopolistic book publishing sector means for creativity. To many, the announcement of the winner of last year’s Booker Prize came as a shock, with the judges deciding to “flout” the rules and refusing to choose between Bernardine Evaristo’s Girl, Woman, Other and Margaret Atwood’s The Testaments. Yet, in other ...
19th February 2020
Tara Gandhi Editor-in-Chief SRC President Scott Kirby expressed concern for the precedent after the investigation, and spokespeople from multiple unions have spoken out against the use of Prevent on campus. Some students from De Montfort, Reading, and Wolverhampton have had essays reported under counter-terror programme Prevent, according to an investigation by The Independent. Experts and ...
19th February 2020
Lucia Posteraro Multimedia Editor The climate crisis is hitting hardest in countries that contribute to it the least — how can the UK move to be part of the solution rather than part of the problem? The UK-Africa Summit, held in January in London, has highlighted a policy conundrum. On the one hand, Boris Johnson’s ...
