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Review: Pride in Trafford Double Bill: The Chosen Haram and BI-TOPIA

Review: Pride in Trafford Double Bill: The Chosen Haram and BI-TOPIA

Pride in Trafford was kicked off with a two pieces of theatre, one exploring the intersection of sexuality and religion, the other sexuality and masculinity
Review: The Beekeeper of Aleppo

Review: The Beekeeper of Aleppo

The Beekeeper of Aleppo is a beautiful but disappointing adaptation of Christy Lefteri’s novel
Slaughterhouse Five: The most thought-provoking novel of the 20th century

Slaughterhouse Five: The most thought-provoking novel of the 20th century

Rising out of the dust of the 1960s, Slaughterhouse-Five questions the meanings of war, and our own personal roles within it.
Farha: Palestinian history through the female gaze

Farha: Palestinian history through the female gaze

Farha portrays the impact of genocidal trauma on a fourteen-year-old Palestinian girl
Rise up: An Iranian feminist’s insight

Rise up: An Iranian feminist’s insight

Trigger Warning: Discusses violence. Iran has been flung into conflict once again thanks to the oppressive regime. Hear what’s actually going on from Iranian feminist Laleh, and what you can do to help.
NATO expansion or not: This is a war of Putin’s making

NATO expansion or not: This is a war of Putin’s making

Discussing Putin’s last desperate attempt at war against Ukraine despite prior defences of the country as a sovereign state
“Where will we be next?”: In conversation with students from the Ukrainian Society and YEM

“Where will we be next?”: In conversation with students from the Ukrainian Society and YEM

In conversation with students who are both from the Ukraine and surrounding Eastern European countries, I understand the impact of this war on students and how the support provided by the university has not gone far enough.
Explaining the Russo-Ukrainian crisis

Explaining the Russo-Ukrainian crisis

The origins of the conflict broken down
Remembrance and portraying war in film accurately

Remembrance and portraying war in film accurately

With an abundance of films glorifying war or depicting its experience in a distorted way, accurate portraying war in cinema is more important than ever before
Review: 1917

Review: 1917

Film editor Tobias Soar reviews Sam Mendes’ epic set in the Great War, with the use of a single take illusion giving us a brilliantly tense tale of heroism
Depoliticise the poppy

Depoliticise the poppy

George Walker discusses the politics surrounding the poppy and suggests we need to reconsider and re-evaluate the true meaning of this symbol.
Review: Overlord

Review: Overlord

A cohesive and well-paced ‘Nazi zombies’ movie, Overlord is a solid genre-mash up with impressive action sequences, and gruesome body-horror, writes Alfie Clark
A Scientific Take: is there a place for military funding in scientific research?

A Scientific Take: is there a place for military funding in scientific research?

Anish Gulati and Jacklin Kwan discuss the effects of military funding in science research, and whether it should have a place in STEM
Britain’s war amnesia

Britain’s war amnesia

Is it too late to remember the sacrifices of Britain’s Colonial soldiers?

Review: Dunkirk

After diving into dreams and exploring far off galaxies, Christopher Nolan returns to Earth with an adrenaline-fuelled World War II thriller

Review: Black Mirror, Men Against Fire

A chilling look into the future of warfare in the third season of Black Mirror

The Russians are not the enemy

With doses of Cold War nostaliga, modern day Russia is wrongly used as a ‘neccasary enemy’ for politicians

A life lecture from British “super-surgeon” Dr. David Nott

David Nott, an NHS consultant surgeon and voluntary humanitarian aid worker, delivered a life lecture to the Manchester medical faculty this week

We must not repeat our mistakes in Syria

IS are arguably a result of our previous interventions in Iraq and Afghanistan—the conflict in Syria shows how hard it is to cease such ideology

The conduct of the Syria debate belies its importance

The way the politicians and the media have conducted themselves inappropriately in relation to Syria means we have failed the matter at hand