New Zealand’s health ministry has released legislation to increase the legal smoking age every year, making it illegal for anyone born after 2008 to purchase tobacco products. The legislation, expected to be enacted next year, was put forward to achieve a national goal of reducing its national smoking rate to 5% by 2025, to attempt…
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UEA Divestment Coalition holds demonstration calling for an ethical investment policy
The Divestment Coalition formed between the UEA Decolonise, Palestine Solidarity, and Extinction Rebellion societies. They held a demonstration on November 11 calling on UEA to implement an ethical investment and banking policy. According to the Coalition, an ethical investment and banking policy would include cutting ties with HSBC, Goldman Sachs, and Barclays, the latter being…
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Spotlight on Serene Shibli Sexton, POC student officer
Balancing full-time higher education with running a society or sports club can feel like a juggling act. POC student officer Serene Shibli Sexton has seemed to master the craft. Alongside being a third year Politics student, they are President of both History and Palestine Solidarity, as well as Union Representative for both Latin Social Dance…
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Spectrum – why the success?
After a monumental reception, the new LGBTQ+ focused club night ‘Spectrum’ returned to the LCR on 2nd December accompanied by festive spirit, “giving a new meaning to making the Yuletide Gay” as advertised on the event page. But what made this idea for a club night such a rising star? Splitting into three aspects which…
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Ahmaud Arbery murderers found guilty
The jury unanimously found Travis McMichael, Gregory McMichael, and William Bryan guilty of Ahmaud Arbery’s murder yesterday. The trio now face life in prison. The murder took place in February last year, when they chased and shot dead an unarmed Ahmaud Arbery, falsely claiming he had been involved in numerous burglaries in the neighbourhood in…
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Mark Thompson’s 140-hour ‘Ultimate Space Lecture’
264 hours stands as the current Guinness World record for staying awake the longest. However, unlike jumping out an aeroplane without a parachute from 7,500 metres and landing in a net, Guinness stopped recognizing it due to safety concerns. Instead, Norfolk-born President of the Norwich Astronomical Society Mark Thompson decided to attempt the longest running…
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Explosion outside Liverpool Women’s Hospital declared a terror incident
A taxi exploded at the drop-off area of Liverpool Women’s Hospital just before the national two-minute silence was due on Remembrance Sunday, caused by an improved explosive device made by the passenger who was killed in the blast. Head of Counter Terrorism Policing North West, Russ Jackson’s statement claimed: “As the taxi approached the drop-off…
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Voices of Black history, hosted by Womanist and Decolonise HUM/LDC
Greeted by the soothing sounds of Ella Fitzergerald, scores of students sat in anticipation for the ‘Voices of Black history’ evening where the work of Black writers who have shaped our history were read aloud, hosted by the Womanist and Decolonise HUM/LDC societies. Krysta-Jo McKenzie, the president of Womanist society, lead us through the history…
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Keir Starmer tests positive for Covid-19
Labour Leader Keir Starmer tested positive for Covid-19 earlier today and cannot respond to the budget or to the prime minister’s questions. The result came less than an hour before Chancellor Rishi Sunak is due to deliver the Autumn Budget to the House of Commons, leaving Rachel Reeves, the shadow chancellor, to respond in Starmer’s…
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