During the afternoon of January 6th, like most students in the UK, I was putting the finishing touches on an essay and looking forward to sending it off in time […]
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Weekly Overview: Inauguration, Coronavirus, and the University
Written by Dan Mooney In the week that teaching started at the University of York, there was no shortage of news. Here is your weekly roundup, for you to get […]
Capitol Building Riots: Feeding the Fire
Written by Alasdair Bell Wednesday, 10am. Rudy Guilani, the lawyer of Donald Trump, stands before a sea of red caps and redder faces and calls for a ‘trial by combat’. […]
Attempted coup on the Capitol
Written by Tinaeke Kilwake With less than a fortnight to go with Joe Biden’s scheduled inauguration and on the day Congress was scheduled to vote for their next president, a […]
Trump’s America and the Race problem
It was only a few weeks ago (12/01) that Trump announced to the world that African nations, Haiti and El Salvador were, ‘shitholes.’ Speaking in a semi-public meeting, Trump’s comments were […]
President Trump: the End of Tackling Climate Change?
The most powerful man in the world does not believe in man-made climate change. Can we afford him ‘cancelling’ the UN’s Paris Agreement? Advocates of climate change anxiously watched the US elections […]
Obituary: Nancy Reagan, former First Lady of the USA
Nancy Reagan, the widow of former President Ronald Reagan, died on Sunday 6th March at the age of 94 of congestive heart failure, in her home in Los Angeles. She […]
Sanders vs. Trump would polarise America
Victory for Jeremy Corbyn MP in the Labour leadership was first derided as a dream by many critics and observers, who saw it highly unlikely that an elderly but vocal […]
Is the response to Donald Trump’s “complete and total ban” fitting?
“Donald Trump”, says Jeb Bush, “is unhinged.” He runs a campaign “fuelled by idiocy, chauvinism and bigotry,” says Owen Jones of The Guardian. The French Prime Minister, Manuel Valls, says […]