Politics

Since Labour have taken charge of our country they have promised to make a great deal of change, some being in the education system. In this article I will lay out the education reforms made by the government. 

For months, the topic of conversation on most news channels and online articles has been focused around the readily upcoming presidential election in the United States. This will determine who will become the 47th president of America, with two figures leading the race – Democrat candidate Kamala Harris and Republican candidate Donald Trump.  

On September 5th, Lord Chancellor Shabana Mahmood signed the world’s first legally binding treaty limiting the uses of AI, bringing the UK into an agreement also including other world leaders such as those of the United States and European Union. The treaty (officially named: ‘Council of Europe Framework Convention on Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights, Democracy and the Rule of Law’) outlines principles that will apply to all use of public sector AI, including that of private companies on behalf of the public sector.  

The party, which labels itself as the party of “common sense policies”, displayed themselves as having anything but this “common sense” they made a cornerstone within their campaign, having made themselves the laughingstock of UK politics with their laughable blunder of firing a dead man, but who actually are they? And what really happened?  

Rishi Sunak decided to announce his disposable vape ban through an exclusive video on LADbible. After his failed transition video ‘if you live in or around Blyth, you’re going to want to hear this’, it’s surprising that he has taken to social media yet again to announce a major plan. Is this a sign of how us young people are accessing our news? 

Since October 7th, the Middle East has been in a state of turmoil. What initially started as one of many proxy wars between Israel and Palestine has since snowballed into an issue spanning all the way across the region, one of the biggest players now being Iran and its multitude of militias. One of these militias is the Yemen based ‘Houthi movement.’ 

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As of recent, there has been a lot of attention on the middle east in the wake of the conflict in Israel and Gaza, but this is not the only struggle in this region. This article is going to discuss the history of the largest stateless nation in the world and the injustice they face at the hands of their oppressors. 

An issue that has divided the political landscape for years: is our election system effective? In this country we use first past the post as our electoral system, but just how democratic is it? 

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