Queen’s Gambit: Sex, Drugs, and Chess ★★★★
The pilot commences with protagonist Beth Harmon emerging soaked but fully clothed from a bathtub to the sound of banging…
Headie One – Edna – Different Vibe, Same Brilliance ★★★★
Drill is an acquired taste, but it is a joy for the initiated. There is an aggression and vitality in…
Lessons from America’s toxic romance with meritocracy
24% of American adults believe in the conspiracy theory QAnon, which conjures up a world in which virtually all of…
‘The Prime Ministers’: a nuanced reading of politics for a divided age ★★★★
Reading Steve Richards’ expert account featuring everything from Labour PM Harold Wilson to Boris Johnson brings forth the shocking revelation:…
Sir John Hills, LSE Social Policy giant, dies at 66
Sir John Hills, global expert on inequality and social exclusion and Professor of Social Policy at LSE, died this week.…
Mental health in LSE undergraduate halls
Source: Wikipedia Commons, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mental_Health_Message.jpg Whilst the Covid-19 pandemic has changed much of how we live our daily lives, it has…
LSE alumnus campaigns in historic U.S. Senate race
In an election which will determine the political success of incoming United States president Joe Biden and the legislative agenda…
Nancy Hawthorn: Elle(SE) Woods
Nancy and I met on a rainy October afternoon. Waiting outside the NAB, I had an idea of what to…
We Know the End #4: Pop Culture – “Banging on bits of trash”
“Carole Baskin definitely killed her husband.” In this chapter, we pay ode to the stories, told to us through movies,…
LSE Limelight #25: Sumaya Osman, the SU Women’s Officer
“The fact that I was the only black woman running, the fact that I was the only Muslim woman running…
