The Royal Family needs reform
Recently the Royal Family has been in the ‘real’ news, upgrading from the tabloids, for longer than usual. The dramatic…
LGBTQIA+ & the British Tamil community: a double barrier to celebrating Pride.
Pride Month is synonymous with inclusivity and celebration. However, for people of colour, few safe and intersectional spaces exist. This…
Why the banking culture at LSE is toxic
When I imagined going to university, I don’t think my 18-year-old self expected to be confronted by a wave of…
Why do we love to see women fail?
Let me paint you a picture of an extremely toxic, competitive, and male-dominated environment. A space where if you are…
Minouche wants to reform the social contract. Let’s start at home.
LSE Climate Emergency Collective and Justice for LSE Cleaners For people and planet, Minouche’s social contract doesn’t just fail to…
Breaking our silence: The fight against racism should include Asians too.
Many people, including world leaders like former US President Donald Trump, have consistently conflated Covid-19 with “Asian” identity. It is…
The intellectual collapse of Western arrogance
2020 was hopefully the final nail in the coffin for Western arrogance – an intellectual edifice that has plagued the…
Why we need to stop using the phrase: “Committed suicide”
“Committing suicide” – let’s unpack this phrase: What other phrases do we associate with the term “committing”? People “commit” crimes.…
While we were asleep: The Coronavirus Pandemic and the erosion of Human Rights
On 11 March 2020, the World Health Organisation declared the Covid-19 outbreak to be a global pandemic, setting off a…
Speaking up: Confessions of being Chinese
As coronavirus cases escalated in the UK, angst and fear drove me home from the busy metropolis to the peaceful…
