‘Bad Neighbours’, ‘American Pie’, and ‘Blue Mountain State’ are all films and programmes that we watch in our teens and early twenties wondering if this actually represents what American College life is really like. Chad and Troy high-five Brent the high school jock in their varsity jackets before swiftly wedgie-ing a dork and a couple […]
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The Ghosts of Christmas Present: The Darkness behind Dutch and Belgian Traditions
Christmas is recognised across the globe as being the holiday of giving and of love. It is a time where people put aside their differences, come together and has quite literally paused wars in its honour. For this reason, it comes as a shock that in certain countries in Europe these traditions involve rather racist […]
Farage’s Future? Pauline Hanson and the One Nation Party
In the United Kingdom, we all know about Nigel Farage and the UK Independence Party. We have seen his impact on our political system in our messy exit from the EU, while his active support and defence of Donald Trump indicates his backwards attitude towards minorities and multiculturalism in general. From UKIP’s founding in 1993, the party and its […]
Politics down under: what to expect from the ACT legislative assembly election
While the world’s attention is being drawn to the debacle that is the 2016 United States Presidential Election, there’s a lot happening politically down under. Australia Capital Territory (ACT) is holding its legislative assembly elections on 15 October for twenty-five seats, five for each electorate. It may not be as dramatic as Trump and Clinton’s showdown […]
Fire at Fort McMurray – What’s happening now?
It’s been several months now since the hype surrounding the fire at Fort McMurray, and the fire itself, has died down. The fire, now known to be the costliest disaster in Canadian history1, hit worldwide news channels, spreading knowledge of this disaster across the globe. But what actually happened and why? The wildfire actually started […]
The Lungarno collapse in Florence: what lessons can be learned?
On 25 May, 200 metres of the road running along the river Arno collapsed into itself along with over twenty parked cars, but luckily took no victims with it. Florence woke up utterly shocked to find an extremely central part of the city, just a two minute walk away from the Ponte Vecchio, dramatically sunken […]
One Man in Amman – The Cinema
Cinema is one of those things you can always enjoy. There’s the stale-in-the-mouth popcorn that you wish you’d never bought, the seat with three or four pieces of chewing gum glued to the underside – reluctantly discovered by an overcurious hand, the floors imbibed with sodas spilled through the decades that you can peel your […]
Terror in Brussels: the city on 22 March
On the morning of 22 March, I was at my home in Brussels. I can only imagine how it must have felt to those out on the streets near the explosions. To clarify, I am an International Relations student on my year abroad in Japan, but I returned home before the spring semester starts. I was […]
After Paris, the world responds.
Italy – Emily Henderson A sadness looms over Italy, as it does in most European countries this week. People are struggling to believe the brutality of Friday night’s events and fear similar attacks will happen here. The nation mourns for Valeria Solesin – the twenty-eight year old Italian researcher studying in Paris, who lost her […]