US Strikes Venezuela and Captures President Nicolás Maduro
In the early hours of 3rd January, according to officials, the United States carried out military strikes in Venezuela and seized President Nicolás Maduro, along with his wife, to face…
The Guardian Angel Who Ran for Mayor in New York: A Tale of Cats, Crime, and Campaigns
The recent New York mayoral election ended with Zohran Mamdani narrowly overcoming Andrew Cuomo in the electoral race, but one candidate stood out for reasons other than politics. Curtis Sliwa,…
Mamdani Shakes Up NY Mayoral Race With Bold Progressive Vision
At just 34 years old, Zohran Mamdani, a Ugandan immigrant of Indian descent, has captured the political zeitgeist with his successful electoral campaign to become the mayor of New York.…
Trump’s Cabinet: Business as Usual for the Elite
Donald Trump’s view on billionaires seems to be ‘the more the merrier’, with his potential administration shaping up to be the wealthiest in history. To put this into perspective, the…
Blunting Bernie’s Momentum
How Corbyn’s loss was leveraged to reject Bernie Sanders – By Jackson Oka Jeremy Corbyn’s emphatic defeat to Boris Johnson in the December election has meant a variety of things…
Trump Impeachment: What’s Next?
Venice Hancock, News Sub-Editor, details the next steps of the impeachment process.
Sussex fail to rule out further Sackler funding
The University of Sussex has failed to specify whether it has received any further funds from the Sackler family since their £4 million donation to the University in 2010. The…
Where have all the “brave” men gone?
It’s not every day something occurs that leads you to question your very own principles, let alone leads you to question the principles of your fellow man – and I…
State of Nature: Immersive political theatre
This wasn’t theatre, this was an interactive evening in Utah with the State Governor, Merriweather, come terrorist which blew me away, literally, there is a terror explosion in the first…
Travel Diary: Detroit
There is something uneasy about Detroit. It is a feeling that has attached itself to the crumbling brick and glassless windows. It has attached itself to the abandoned, in place…
Why the world will miss President Obama
In the midst of an election which has morphed into a farcical contest between ‘no change’ and backwards change, it’s hard not to wonder what happened to American progressivism. Eight…
Whilst in America…
Our Arts Editor Bianca Serafini has gone home to New York for the summer and is now surveying the political turmoil on both sides of the Atlantic.. I’d comment on…
Evolution and the ‘Bible Belt’: the US presidential election
Are we really just a 6000-year-old race? The evidence piling against this idea is getting higher and higher by the decade, yet many key political and social figures in North…
Robert Cook in the 'Academic Armchair'
It’s Tuesday and it’s raining. I’m not sure why the weather needs to be defined considering it is always raining but I felt that the scene needed to be set.…
Guns on campus: worth a shot?
What is your immediate reaction when you hear the words ‘gun’ and ‘US College’ used in the same sentence? For many of us, I’m sure, it draws up awful stories…