Politics

Why was Winston Churchill removed from office? (originally published in the focus)

admin 12 October No Comments

4 minutes

What led to Winston Churchill being removed from office in the fabled ‘11th hour’ of World War II? In 1945, his Conservative Party lost the general election and Churchill resigned as Prime Minister of the UK. Instead, […]

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Don’t let your protest let off steam, or alleviate your guilt: Translate solidarity into policy — into education

admin 23 July No Comments

5 minutes

Clearing through my old university things, I found a 100-page political zine recounting some of the responses to the murder of Michael Brown. Brown was a black teenager from Missouri who was shot six times […]

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Don’t clap for our NHS, Vote for It

admin 18 May No Comments

5 minutes

More and more, commentators are delicately questioning the method and/or madness behind our weekly ritual—the Clap (no, not that clap). Why do we clap for the NHS? What can previous love-ins teach us about bringing […]

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‘Every day we see plastic’ — The Great Pacific Garbage Patch: Is it real?

admin 6 March No Comments

7 minutes

The Pacific Garbage Patch, or simply the Patch, is, by now, a household name, the climate bogeyman, a beast of biblical proportions — like an ark, but built (or so you think) from bottles and […]

Politics

Tel Aviv Airport, Israeli Immigration—On Being ‘Checked’

admin 13 August No Comments

7 minutes

A step by step account of what it is like to be held by Israeli immigration at Tel Aviv Yafo for five hours.

Politics

Why we need to politicise Eurovision

admin 31 May No Comments

4 minutes

Breaking point has been reached: the Israel-Palestine conflict has spilled over into the domain of mass entertainment.