1,400 Exeter students evacuated due to unexploded WW2 bomb The University of Exeter has relocated 1,400 students from halls in response to an unexploded WW2 bomb found near campus. A registrar email revealed that students from affected halls were taken to alternative accommodation last night, where the University are “working hard to put support in […]
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Keep Calm and Carry On?
Aaron Loose discusses the government’s new message to ‘Stay Alert’ and the implications behind using such slogans to guide the Coronavirus pandemic
The Limits of Charity: Tom Moore vs Austerity
In unambiguous campaigns to ‘protect the NHS’ that emulate those seen in the war, the Government directly highlights their own failings. The public is being asked to provide for these failings through, exemplarily, donations. Rather than in disillusionment, the result will be of a public quickly forgetting the chronic societal issues that have brought this on – in the name of national pride.