The Home Secretary wrongly deported 48,000 students and 70% of those affected are of Indian origin according to a tribunal. The scandal began with a BBC Panorama programme in 2014, which investigated the Test of English for International Communication (TOEIC) that was run by ETS from an East London school. Panorama’s revelation was the catalyst…
The junior doctors held their fourth strike on Wednesday 6th April of in protest to the Conservative government, who are extending the doctors’ working week to include Saturday’s and overseeing a ‘top down’ reorganisation of the NHS. Furthermore, The British Medical Association has announced there will be a “full withdrawal of labour between the hours…
The EU referendum is a divisive issue spanning from socialist left to the far right of the political spectrum, and neither Labour nor the Conservatives can boast of having a party united behind a common position. The debate has given rise to unlikely alliances, for example the union of George Galloway with Ukip’s Farage and…
Two weeks ago at PMQs, David Cameron referred to the refugees living in the squalor of the Calais ‘Jungle’ camp as a “bunch of migrants”. This is not the first time the PM has demeaned the plight of refugees. In the past, he has dehumanised the people fleeing from war as a “swarm” and spoken…
The recent terror attacks in Paris reminds us that the role of social media has become an ever more important one. With social media platforms aid those in need – for example with the #PorteOuverte Twitter hashtag, which means ‘door open’, which helped those without a safe place in the city to find locals opening…
“If I was the fire to be lit to tell the truth, it was the people who protected the fire from the wind”. These are the words of Shaker Aamer, an innocent man, and the last of the 16 British nationals to be released from Guantanamo Bay, the notorious North American black site, where he…
“Everyone has a responsibility to prevent and end violence against women and girls, starting by challenging the culture of discrimination that allows it to continue”. UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon There are 5000 recorded incidents of so-called ‘honour killing’ worldwide each year and eleven thousand cases of honour crime in the UK. These UN statistics illustrate…
Sometime before 2017, the Conservative government has promised to hold a referendum on Britain’s membership of the European Union. The last referendum on Britain’s relationship to the EU was in 1975, when the electorate endorsed membership of the European Economic Community. As students and young people, we find ourselves in an odd socio-financial situation; at…
As Nicola Sturgeon so aptly put it, the allegations that, whilst at Oxford University, David Cameron “put a private part of his anatomy” into a dead pig as part of his initiation into the Piers Gaveston Society, have “entertained the whole country”. The media, and Twitter in particular, have been deconstructing Lord Ashcroft’s account since…
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