Alexandra Luca
Rhetoric: Drugs
Recreational use of illegal drugs is a controversial social topic. Many of us will know users, those in favour of legalisation, those against it,...
Rhetoric: Homosexual
At the end of 2017 the population of Australia voted in favour of gay marriage, and the country’s parliament legalised the non-binding vote shortly...
Rhetoric: Fake News
“The media is really, the word, one of the greatest of all terms I’ve come up with, is ‘fake’ … I guess other...
Rhetoric: Terrorism
“Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never break me”; we’ve all heard the familiar nursery rhyme designed to cheer up...
Monopolies in the Internet Age
The monopoly is as old as capitalism itself. It is logical that a system built on the premise of private profit makes having complete...
Citizens to be ranked by national loyalty: China’s new Social Credit...
Our fast-paced contemporary age has loaded pop culture with every dystopian tale imagination can conjure, from Orwell’s 1984 totalitarian nightmare, to the social credit-obsessed...
Leaving the nightmares behind: is the horror genre entering a new...
Earlier this month movie-goers were creeped to their core by a nebulous evil whose preferred shape is that of Pennywise the Dancing Clown –...
We are all A LOT older than we thought!
Carina Schlebusch led a team of researchers at Uppsala University in Sweden in a project combining genome mapping with anthropology in an effort to...
Protestors take to Bedford Square to dennounce Trump
Dozens gathered in Bedford Square on Tuesday night to protest against US president-elect Donald Trump.
The protest denounced Trump’s intolerant and divisive rhetoric, as well...
