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Opinion: Theresa May’s Brexit victory is imminent — and it will be era-defining - VozWire

In the next few days, the Prime Minister will put her Brexit deal to a vote in the Commons for a third time, and she will win.

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Jun 24, 2019

Opinion: White saviours and regressive progressivism: How identity politics ruthlessly undermines good causes - Researching Sociology

David Lammy MP takes issue not with a stance taken by Comic Relief or an aspect of its approach to sensitive issues, but rather with the skin colour of the faces he sees on television.

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Jun 24, 2019

Opinion: Young people are swinging to the left because they don’t remember the harm it caused - The New Briton

There exists a clichéd and farcical yet somehow widely accepted notion that socialism "has never been tried", as though its repeated failure in over forty countries was pure coincidence.

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Jun 24, 2019

Opinion: This week, Brexit lives or dies - VozWire

As Jacob Rees-Mogg helpfully put it, "there will be a vote in Parliament on no No Deal, and I will vote no to no No Deal."

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Jun 24, 2019

Opinion: Free speech and free press go hand in hand — and both are under threat - VozWire

By subtly and implicitly encouraging people to be offended by the things they read and hear, we are slowly but surely fostering a culture of intolerance, in which dissenting voices can be arbitrarily shut down.

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Jun 24, 2019

Opinion: Far Right — how the Left tars all its enemies with the same brush - The Conservative Woman

I look forward to the new political thriller, 'How the Spectator killed Jo Cox', a gripping tale of a Rod Liddle joke gone wrong.

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Jun 24, 2019

Feature: A Look Into Three Strikes - The Beaver

Climate strikes earlier this month were not the first time students in London have become involved in political activism by taking to the streets.

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Apr 26, 2019

News: Campus Is Abuzz With Exams Talk As LSE Clarifies Its Assessment Regulations - The Beaver

The LSE has announced that first-year undergraduate students will have access to in-year exam resists for the first time in 2019.

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Apr 26, 2019

News: LSE Takes On Plastic Waste With New Water Fountain - The Beaver

LSE’s Head of Sustainability claims that the new water fountain “will enable students… to be part of the solution to our global plastics issue”.

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Apr 26, 2019

Feature: Government to Crack Down on ‘No Platforming’ - The Beaver

The document published by the Equality and Human Rights Commission is being seen as an attempt to clamp down on censorship of controversial speakers on university campuses.

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Apr 26, 2019

Feature: The Right-Wing Student Group That Is Falling Apart Before It Has Begun - The Beaver

Turning Point UK has barely been active for a fortnight and it already appears to be collapsing – the leader of its LSE chapter tells me how it all went so wrong, so quickly.

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Apr 26, 2019

News: Activist Pioneers Kick Off LSE LGBT+ History Month Events - The Beaver

On Friday 1 February, three prominent activists instrumental in the early days of the LGBT+ movement shared their stories in a public lecture at LSE.

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Apr 26, 2019

News: At Davos, Minouche Talks Climate and Influences Business-Leaders - The Beaver

The LSE Director attended the WEF's annual meeting in Switzerland along with politicians, business-people and other prominent global figures.

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Apr 26, 2019

Opinion: The great political switch: How the Conservatives became the party of the working class - The London Globalist

The class-based allegiances of the two major British political parties have reversed.

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Jun 24, 2019

Opinion: Recycling is cheap and easy — so why are we rubbish at it? - 1828

Recycling is an area where meaningful progress can be made very easily, so it is an outrage that we are failing to realise this opportunity.

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Jun 24, 2019

Opinion: Why I, a staunch Brexiteer, support the Prime Minister’s Withdrawal Agreement - Brexit Central

History will look back on Theresa May's Brexit deal as an extremely impressive political feat.

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Jun 24, 2019

Opinion: Christianity, conservatism and the populist tide - The Mallard

The intermingling to a two-thousand-year-old religion and contemporary Western society might be seen as the perfect conditions for populism.

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Jun 24, 2019

Opinion: The National Union of Students is a sinking ship: let’s escape while we can — The Beaver

The LSE should join the 15 plus universities who have left the NUS due to poor representation.

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Jun 24, 2019

Opinion: Teacher shouts at naughty pupils. Good for him — The Conservative Woman

It is thanks to radically changing attitudes to basic discipline that behaviour standards in schools have fallen.

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Jun 24, 2019

Opinion: Why we should not scrap tuition fees - We In This House

Slashing or abolishing tuition fees would do nothing to tackle inequality. In fact, it would only serve to exacerbate the problem.

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Jun 24, 2019

Opinion: Debt-plagued students’ union face swingeing cuts — and they can’t even blame the evil Tories - The Conservative Woman

For many student groups, austerity is a political choice made by evil Tories who are undoubtedly in cahoots with The Establishment.

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Jun 24, 2019

Opinion: What is the will of the people on Brexit? — The London Economic

Leaving the EU is not a temporary thing; nobody advocated a trial period which could be reversed if we don't like it. The vote was - or should have been - final.

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Jun 24, 2019

Opinion: Labour’s civil war goes much deeper than Brexit — 1828

Ideological warfare is being waged on the Left between the old guard and the young crowd. Neo-Marxism versus actual Marxism, if you like.

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Jun 24, 2019

Opinion: The DUP’s threats are in vain: May doesn’t need them any more — Conservative Home

The simplistic post-electoral world where Theresa May's minority government was supported by the ten DUP MPs is long gone.

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Jun 24, 2019

Opinion: The ban on electric shock collars is yet another improvement in UK animal rights — 1828

Banning shock collars is the most recent in a string of successful moves, reigniting productivity in a stale government department.

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Jun 24, 2019

Opinion: Will Theresa May escape the European curse that toppled the last three Tory Prime Ministers? — Brexit Central

It is in the DNA of Conservative Prime Ministers to fall at the hands of their own party over Britain's relationship with Europe.

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Jun 24, 2019

Opinion: A harsh lesson in economics for the student Lefties — The Conservative Woman

For years, the National Union of Students has been a fierce critic of the same austerity policies it will now have to impose on itself.

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Jun 24, 2019

Opinion: With one bound, Corbyn soars away from the anti-Semitism scandal — The Conservative Woman

Sadly, anti-Semitism has proved the least inconvenient type of scandal Corbyn could have become involved in.

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Jun 24, 2019

Opinion: Right is Left and Left is right: rewriting reality with Comrade Jones — The Conservative Woman

Owen Jones has so clearly just seized the Right's rhetoric and swapped 'Left' for 'far-Right'.

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Jun 24, 2019

Opinion: A Brexit divorce bill would be daylight robbery — The Conservative Woman

It would be ridiculous for us to pay for projects that will take place after we have left and from which we will never reap any benefits.

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Jun 24, 2019

Opinion: The Serena Williams debacle shows how identity politics paralyses debate and distracts from real injustice — The Post Millennial

This was not an issue of race or gender, but merely one of tennis discipline.

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Jun 24, 2019

Opinion: Hysteria over robots ‘taking our jobs’ is nonsensical — 1828

Humanity cannot and will not adapt to such a degree that it eliminates its ability to sustain itself.

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Jun 24, 2019

Opinion: Theresa May is criminally underpraised for her phenomenal leadership — Backbench

What our Prime Minister has quietly achieved over the last two years is nothing short of astonishing.

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Jun 24, 2019

Opinion: What Tesla’s Chinese Gigafactory tells us about the future — DriveTribe

Tesla, in the grand scheme of things, is very young at just fifteen years old but has erupted onto centre-stage of the motoring revolution.

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Jun 24, 2019

Opinion: The future of transport: Blue sky thinking versus reality — DriveTribe

It is essential that we look past the media sensationalising of these issues and focus on the pioneering work taking place today.

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Jun 24, 2019
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