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Opinion: Why Trump’s Idea of Gaza as the New Middle Eastern Riviera Is an Extremely Dangerous Suggestion

March 12, 2025March 12, 2025 By Cordelia Moore

“Everybody I’ve spoken to loves the idea of the United States owning that piece of land, developing it, and creating thousands of jobs.

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The Bulgarian Supermarket Boycotts: Standing up to Consumer Exploitation

March 9, 2025March 8, 2025 By nikol Kutsovska

The global cost of living crisis has impacted many households across Europe and beyond. It is becoming increasingly difficult for people, especially larger

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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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This Week in PMQs: Defence, Ukraine and Trump 

March 3, 2025 By Phineas Horan

This week, Parliament wishes the PM good luck as he leaves for a meeting with President Trump to secure the future of Ukraine

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Opinion: Whitmer 2028 is the Anti-Vance 

February 27, 2025February 27, 2025 By Jack Duncan

We may still be 1,349 days out from the November 2028 election in the United States, but the perpetual and ceaseless nature of

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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: Trump Has Betrayed Europe

February 23, 2025February 23, 2025 By Jack Duncan

It is often said that the definition of insanity is trying the same thing repeatedly and expecting different outcomes each time. Yet, the

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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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