How Therapy Culture Gave Everyone a Diagnosis (and Forgot to include the Fine Print)
Sophie analyses the impact of democratising mental health language, and the negative effects of its overuse in self-realisation.
Somewhere, Nowhere, And Everything In Between: How Self-Studying Can Help You Find Your Happy Place
Through her personal experience, Amy shares how ‘self-study’ is a way for us to continue enjoying the thrill of intellectual…
On A High: Takeaways From the “Coolest” Summer of Our Lives
Nina analyses social responses to European heatwaves this summer, emphasising the extent to which collective action is urgent and necessary.
The Death of Makeup Personality
Sarah compares the rise of the ‘Clean Girl’ aesthetic to the maximalist makeup trends of the 2010s, questioning whether this…
How to Be Disabled (Correctly).
Sophie highlights how society imposes contradictory and performative expectations on disabled people.
A Women’s War: Modern Justification of Genocide and Colonialism.
Hareem claims that Western powers weaponise feminist rhetoric to justify imperialist violence.
Dubai and the End of Bought Neutrality
Anna contends that Dubai’s promise of insulation from Middle Eastern instability was always precarious, and recent conflict exposes how wealth…
‘Nobody actually knows what Trump’s goals in Iran are, not even Trump himself’
Andrei argues that Trump’s war on Iran is incoherent and contradictory, with no clear strategy, and appears largely driven by…
You’re Not As Superior As You Think You Are
Amy argues that elitist attitudes at LSE, rooted in unexamined class privilege and reinforced by superficial markers of academic prestige,…
How Long Can Starmer Rely on Being the Least Bad Option?
Willow explores how Keir Starmer’s vague promise of “change” turned an electoral victory into a governing problem.
