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Autonomous Free Spaces: The Battlegrounds of Berlin
Writing by Lucy Rosenberg. Artwork by Sarah Dobbs. "There are no borders between peoples, only between the top and the bottom." Just over...
Dec 19, 20223 min read


The First Known Death Sentence for Protesting in Iran
Writing by Georgia May. Artwork from Unsplash. Ongoing protest and civil unrest in Iran has culminated in a protester being sentenced to...
Dec 19, 20223 min read


Stop Killer Robots
Writing by Anna Olszewska. Artwork from https://www.stopkillerrobots.org/. Lethal Autonomous Weapons (LAWs) are still characterised as a...
Oct 31, 20223 min read


Privatised Prisons in a Privatised World
Writing by Melissa Malick. Artwork by Sarah Dobbs. In the 1980s, the United States and United Kingdom governments found themselves unable...
Oct 22, 20223 min read


Liberating the Liberty Caps: Psilosybin Mushrooms and the Battle for Western Legalisation
Writing by Elli Efird. Artwork by Mary Buchanan. “The rejection of any source of evidence is always treason to that ultimate rationalism...
Oct 22, 20226 min read


Labels, Lies, and Greenwashing: How Corporations Are Undermining Our Efforts
Writing by Jamie Calder. Artwork by Berenika Murray. ‘100 fossil fuel producers and nearly 1 trillion tonnes of greenhouse gas...
Oct 22, 20224 min read


The Tories Have Dug the Grave - Now the Labour Party Must Put Them In It
Writing by Ciara Savvides. Artwork by Polly Burnay. The Tory Party have recently revealed their so-called ‘growth’ plan, which will...
Oct 22, 20223 min read


The Damaging Implications of Instagram's Continued Misogynistic Censorship of the Female Body
Writing by Ruth Stainer. Artwork by Berenika Murray. Launched in October 2010, Instagram was initially perceived to be an innovative app...
Oct 22, 20224 min read


Money, Money, Money: How Mass Consumption is Killing the Planet
Writing by Naya Sudra. Artwork by Alina Sandauer. As Halloween is fast approaching, people have begun to purchase costumes and...
Oct 22, 20224 min read


Hope as a Vice
Writing by William Lewallen-Jordan. Artwork by Annie Whiteson. As the last of the warm summer air left and we all stepped into the...
Oct 22, 20223 min read


Emmanuel Macron’s bittersweet victory over right-wing extremist Marine Le Pen
Writing by Ellie Bye. Illustration via Unsplash. There is a sense of déjà vu to the French presidential race this year as it was the same...
Jun 1, 20224 min read


KAOS and The Invasion of Ukraine: Humour as a Coping Mechanism
Writing by Isabella Henricks. Lots of people are making jokes about the invasion of Ukraine in bad taste. However, if there is one...
Mar 3, 20222 min read


Why this is the last time I will ever talk about Boris Johnson.
Writing by Ellie Bye. Illustration by Hannah Grist. When Boris Johnson first came to power, the UK looked, for better or for worse, more...
Mar 3, 20223 min read


A Pandemic of Inaction: the Climate Movement’s Battle Against Chronic Stasis
Writing by Ellie Bye. Illustration by Heather Baillie. As a species, we often think of ourselves as separate from nature. We have usurped...
Jan 25, 20226 min read


Anonymity and Accountability
How anonymous online platforms are changing attitudes and responses to sexual assault and harassment in Edinburgh Writing by Bella...
Jan 25, 20223 min read


Question Evolution, question everything – a graffiti of doubt
Writing by Lilli Steffens. Writing by Berenika Murray. “Question Evolution”. These two words, accompanied by a cross, have recently...
Jan 25, 20224 min read


Molly Mae's '24 Hours' Statement is Symbolic of a Much Wider Issue
Writing by Isi Williams. Image via Unsplash. The recent comments of Love Island star, Molly Mae Hague, went viral last week for their...
Jan 8, 20224 min read


The Taliban Renaissance Should Not Come as a Surprise
Writing by Jamie McDonald. Photograph by Andre Klimke. “I want to say that the hearts of the free world are with you. We will never rest...
Nov 25, 20215 min read


How the Coronavirus Pandemic has sparked an unprecedented discussion about Welsh Independence
Writing by Ruth Stainer. Illustration by Berenika Murray. Devolution, defined as ‘the process of transferring power from the centre to...
Sep 23, 20215 min read


Can Freedom Really Be Measured by One Number?
Writing by Jamie McDonald. Illustration by Juliet Richards. Freedom House is a US-based non-profit organisation, famous for its annual...
Sep 23, 20215 min read
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