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Opinion: The Most Important Film at the Oscars 2025

March 11, 2025March 10, 2025 By Jack Williams

After a night at the Oscars that was unusually devoid of political statements and speeches, one winner made a strong and hopeful statement

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Opinion: How to Turn Diplomacy into Reality TV

March 8, 2025March 8, 2025 By Abby Uffindell

When I saw the headline pertaining to the Oval Office last Friday I couldn’t quite believe it. Surely this was just classic clickbait

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Opinion: Online Radicalisation and Violence – Technology is Sweeping the Law off its Feet. 

March 7, 2025March 3, 2025 By Jade Effemey

The world of technology has developed at increasing speed over recent decades, and with it, a flurry of change to how we understand

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Opinion: How US Federal Workers Have Found Themselves Inside an Episode of The Apprentice

March 5, 2025March 5, 2025 By Amelie Singleton

These are policies you expect to hear from the historic regimes of the Gestapo and Stasi, not 21st century America.   

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Opinion: Gaza – Commodification of a Crisis

February 27, 2025February 27, 2025 By Gemma Gradwell

Trump’s policy on Palestine has long been incoherent, ill-considered, and illogical – much like his foreign policy elsewhere. Red flags were raised after

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Opinion: Europe Must Act to Secure its Future 

February 25, 2025February 25, 2025 By Rhys Jones

Earlier this month at the 2025 Munich Security Conference, United States (US) Vice President JD Vance delivered Europe a stark reality check. In

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Opinion: Gaza, Ceasefire, and Peace 

February 25, 2025 By Ali Aldawood

When I heard about the ceasefire on January 19, I was relieved. I wanted to hold on to my relief for as long

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Opinion: Why We Should All Still Read ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’

February 23, 2025February 23, 2025 By Veronika Parfjonova

Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale has been endlessly dissected, criticised, misinterpreted and more recently, dismissed. Some argue that it reinforces the very patriarchal

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Opinion: Will the Policies of Trump’s Administration, Over the Next Four Years, Resolve Global Tensions or Make them Worse?

February 21, 2025February 20, 2025 By Antonia Heath

Donald Trump appears to be adamant that he holds the ability and power to end two of the conflicts gripping the world today: the Russo-Ukraine war

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Opinion: The Double Standard for Female Politicians 

February 20, 2025February 20, 2025 By Ruby Fry

Within political positions of power, women are still being severely underrepresented with only 23% of cabinet members in ministries worldwide being women. They

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