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The lessons we can learn from the happiest place on Earth

March 13, 2021October 1, 2021 By Eloise Norris

On a scale of one to ten, how happy do you consider your current life to be? It’s a difficult and subjective question

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Why anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism must be understood as separate issues

March 9, 2021October 10, 2021 By Lauren Taylor

The danger of using the terms ‘anti-Zionist’ and ‘anti-semitic’ in an interchangeable manner is that this ​“uses Jewish suffering to erase the Palestinian

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The Genocide Amendment: a real opportunity for the UK to stand up to genocide

March 4, 2021 By Xavier Hussein

On 23 February, the House of Lords backed Lord Alton’s Genocide Amendment to the UK Trade Bill in an effort to prevent the

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Introducing Exeter Must Act (EMA)

February 27, 2021March 2, 2021 By Grace Hart

What is EMA? We are a politically neutral, non-violent, and volunteer-run organisation, who lobbies governments for the disintegration of refugee camps in the

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Cancel culture and separating art from the artist

February 25, 2021March 2, 2021 By Will Howe

One of the biggest perils of living in 2021, besides coronavirus, is finding out regularly that your favourite artists or actors are awful

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The history behind Uyghur persecution in China

February 23, 2021October 10, 2021 By Eloise Norris

The Xinjiang province, home to the Muslim minority Uyghurs, lies just under three-thousand kilometres from Beijing. Cultural differences between Uyghurs and the Han

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The power of AOC and the crisis in Texas

February 23, 2021October 10, 2021 By Lauren Taylor

The current crisis in Texas has forced climate change back into the spotlight after its neglect by the media amidst coronavirus. This has

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China’s ban of BBC World News

February 18, 2021February 20, 2021 By Rosie Wiggin

With China’s questionable coronavirus figures, the Uyghur ‘re-education’ camps and the recent banning of The BBC’s World News Channel in China, the question

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Trump’s acquittal: The failure of the Republican Party

February 16, 2021October 10, 2021 By Lauren Taylor

On Sunday, it was announced that Donald Trump had been acquitted in the impeachment process from the charge of incitement of insurrection. This

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TikTok and democracy

February 12, 2021October 10, 2021 By Will Howe

One day, TikTok might go the way of Vine, and face a tragic death, living on only through links that occasionally crop up online that

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