China’s new Hong Kong security law threatens to destroy protest efforts
The new law has caused Hong Kong protest groups to disband and journalists are deleting articles for fear of their lives. The past year has been hugely turbulent and significant for the people of Hong Kong. Pro-democracy demonstrations and protests have taken over the region and caused political upheaval...
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Referendum extends Putin’s potential rule until 2036
The Kremlin has won a controversial vote to reset Vladimir Putin’s term limits, taking Russia one step closer to a complete dictatorship. A nationwide vote this week in Russia has ratified constitutional reforms proposed by President Vladimir Putin’s Kremlin pseudo-government. A package of constitutional amendments was passed that includes,...
Manchester Utd’s Marcus Rashford wins campaign to bring meals to vulnerable children
The return to Premier League football is just round the corner, but Marcus Rashford’s biggest victory of 2020 has been secured away from the football pitch. The emergence of social media is fast erasing tired and sweeping views that professional athletes are 'dim' and ignorant to matters beyond their sport. ...
Emptying Trump rallies is useless if we don’t take to the voting booths
K-Pop fans and TikTok users reserved seats at Trump’s latest rally and deliberately left them empty. It’s a great start but it’s the people’s votes that really count. Trump has always been a man of hyperbole, so intertwined with his own warped sense of reality that it’s hard to...
Online dating during lockdown- can love thrive while we’re apart?
Lockdown has accelerated the transition of online dating apps to purely online hangout spaces. Should this trend continue beyond quarantine? If modern communication falls broadly into two categories – the online and the offline – then where do we place online dating? Pre-COVID, it occupied some strange liminal place between...
Landmark Supreme Court decision protects LGBT+ workers
New federal Civil Rights law prohibits US employers for discriminating against workers on the basis of sexual orientation. A 10-year Supreme Court legal battle has ended this week in a win for the LGBT+ community. The highest court of the federal judiciary in the United States ruled on Monday...
How to celebrate Pride during the pandemic
It’s an undeniably turbulent time, but Pride is still happening this year – here’s how you can get involved and where you can show your support. Coronavirus and all that’s come with it – lockdown, never-ending social distancing, the usual fun global pandemic stuff – has caused serious disruption to the 2020 calendar. Music festivals have been cancelled and large gatherings are banned for the foreseeable future. Unfortunately, Pride Week parades...
Does the beauty industry’s future depend on Gen Z?
What is the beauty industry doing to keep up with our rapidly changing society? Since reading about how the VSCO girl trend was supposedly to blame for low makeup sales last year, I’ve been interested in finding out how Gen Z is shaping the future of the beauty industry. Although there’s an ever-growing focus on embracing our natural beauty these days, the beauty industry actually needn’t worry about Gen Z. In...
‘Swishing’ is the new sustainable fashion trend with Gen Z at the forefront
Generation Z is at the forefront of the sustainable fashion revolution with a new clothes swapping trend known as ‘Swishing.’ By now, I’m sure you’re well aware that fast fashion is vastly contributing to the terrifying and rapid effects of climate change, accounting for over 10% of all global carbon emissions. As people become increasingly conscious of the need to make drastic changes to their consumer habits, they continue to...
Migrants struggle to send money home during COVID-19 crisis
The rate of global remittance is set to decline sharply thanks to the harsh COVID economy. This could have dire consequences for the world’s poorest communities. Looking at the worldwide coronavirus statistics, it’s easy to see the virus as a western issue. Deaths and rates of infection are, if the stats are to be believed, overwhelmingly higher in western nations. Whilst the UK stands at...
