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News Reviews from 2016

Rhodes protest

Architectural racism?

by Mark Iddon

 

The legacy of Rhodes should be debated and contested not erased. The campaign ‘Rhodes Must Fall’ (RMF), was launched in March 2015 to remove a Statue of Cecil Rhodes from Oriel College in Oxford. Astoundingly, the campaign is led by a Rhodes Scholarship beneficiary Ntokozo Quabe and was inspired by a similar campaign to remove a statue of Cecil Rhodes in Cape Town, South Africa.

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News Reviews from 2016

Floods in UKFlooded out December

by Mark Iddon

 

The month of December 2015 experienced the most rainfall in a calendar month in Scotland, Wales and North West England for over 100 years. As the persistent rain fell on already drenched hills the rivers swelled and burst their banks to cause extensive flooding of towns and villages in Cumbria and Yorkshire causing damage to property, roads and bridges along with power cuts and means of sanitation.

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News Reviews from 2016

Healthy Living and Dry January

Healthy Living and Dry January

by Simon Belt

 

Christmas and New Year is a great time for most people to relax away from work, let your hair down with friends and family, and eat drink and be merry. Well it used to be until the wannabe Victorian patricians thought of a new party game - prod and poke the proles.

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News Reviews from 2016

FIRST TUESDAY News Reviews from 2015

The First Tuesday discussions on current affairs aim to provide attendees with a way of developing and testing their understanding of a range of current affairs topics; improving their journalistic capabilities so that they can write opinion or comment style articles for the regional or national media or blogs, respond with a thoughtful angle on radio chat shows, TV talk shows or maybe just have an interesting angle to respond at work with.

 

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