By Thomas Cornish This past month has been filled with idle silence fillers from me i.e. small talk. Integrating into a new workplace can be like that. I’ve even found myself asking the question “should I start watching Love Island” just to be able to function in these new social encounters. You see, everyone watches … Continue reading Silence Fillers
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Regulating the Sounds Spoken
By Hobhouse. “If you come to England, you must speak English”! This saying has many implications and inherent undertones to it, many of which are often mis thought or simply xenophobic. However, the adage does often garner wide support from “liberals,” conservatives and, of course, the far-right vocalists. Sajid Javid, Home Secretary, said in 2014 … Continue reading Regulating the Sounds Spoken
A Desperate Attempt to Look Tough on Immigration
A desperate whoofed of stench radiated from the pits of the Home Office this past week when they made clear their immigration targets took precedent over the British government’s commitment to human rights. Ken Macharia, a gay rugby player, faces deportation to Kenya, where it is severely taboo to be gay and is illegal to … Continue reading A Desperate Attempt to Look Tough on Immigration
Rethinking “My body, my choice”
By Hobhouse Last week, the governor of Alabama, Kay Ivey, signed a piece of legislation, aimed at restricting abortion, into law. The new law aims to prohibit abortion even if a conception is a result of rape and makes executing an abortion a class A felony: garnering the person who does the deed a sentence … Continue reading Rethinking “My body, my choice”
Don’t like it? Complain
By Hobhouse. Amber Rudd’s rebuttal of the UN’s report on British austerity can be summarised as this: “if you disagree with my ideas, you must be politically biased.” Rudd will lodge a formal complaint with the UN regarding Alston’s, a prestigious Human Rights lawyer, methods and conclusions pertaining to the report. This is akin to … Continue reading Don’t like it? Complain
Pigs for Brains
In contention to the idea that brain death is lethal, researchers have successfully revived the disembodied brains of pigs - four hours after their initial termination. Although it was not clear how wide spread the revival was within the brains’ numerous regions, or whether consciousness is also capable to being reinstated, the study does raise … Continue reading Pigs for Brains
Looking at Pain in the Mirror: pain mirror neurons found in rats.
How is it that we get overwhelmed when watching someone cry, or feel a coating of inspiration when we see a face filled with hope? And, are we the only animal to exert an empathic response to those emotional cues? A study published last week by Carrillo and colleagues uncovers the potential mechanism that allows … Continue reading Looking at Pain in the Mirror: pain mirror neurons found in rats.
Assange: End Game
Editorial An unkept Julian Assange was dragged out from the Ecuadorian embassy in Knightsbridge, ponytail and all, into a police van on 11 April. For seven years Mr Assange remained free in the embassy, evading rape and sexual harassment charges brought by the Swedish authorities. He has dismissed any wrongdoing, in a very Trumpian manner, … Continue reading Assange: End Game
A spooky Brexit extension
Britain has been granted an extension until 31 October for their eventual departure from the EU - pushing it back from the previous 12 April deadline. It's not the June deadline Mrs May was searching for, but it does apply the brakes to the process, offering the PM and MPs a little rest-bite from the … Continue reading A spooky Brexit extension
Flextension
Editorial Alas, Theresa May is still the placeholder for prime minister and as inconsequential as ever. And, in just under 24 hours, we are going to confront a realisation of just how powerless her Withdrawal agreement has, too, made the UK. MPs voted with a commanding majority to endorse Theresa May’s proposal to plead with … Continue reading Flextension
