(Photo: CCL) By Eliza Gill - Contributor “It was a pleasure to burn”, begins Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury’s dystopian depiction of America, in which books are seen as dangerous, and so incinerated. Bradbury’s novel came in the aftermath of the Second World War, which saw the Nazis burn books which opposed their ideology in Germany … Continue reading Banning Children’s Books: Rewriting the Past, Present, and Future?
(Photo: CCL) By James Loughton - Regular Contributor Assad Still Standing More than a decade of civil war has left Syria in ruins; despite the Syrian Government retaking swathes of formerly rebel and ISIL-controlled territories, any resemblance of a structured state is long gone. The devastating earthquakes that hit Northern Syria and Turkey on 6th … Continue reading Captagon Cowboys: Syria’s Rise as a Narco-State
(Photo: CCL)By Finn Sadler - Editor-in-Chief Throughout their tenures as leaders of their respective parties, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and Leader of the Opposition Keir Starmer have shared a primary goal: to distance themselves from their parties' populist pasts. After the Labour Party suffered its most significant electoral defeat since 1935 and after the Conservative … Continue reading Battling the Populist Tide: The Struggle for a New Political Direction in the UK
By Ethan Dayan – Contributor “- ‘Why are you crying?’ – ‘I was suspended from school, because I refused to salute the Zionist flag. This wasn’t the first time . . . I will never salute it. . .’ He ran to the street and his mother shouted to him: ‘stop, stop!’ He stopped, turned around … Continue reading An Interview with Lt. Col. Eyal Dror: “It’s something that you feel you must do as a human being.”
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