A Rant Against Academic Writing
You are assigned, among other things, an academic article to read over the next week for an upcoming tutorial. Given
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Cultural Violence: The Manson Case
For years, Brian Warner, more commonly known by his stage name, Marilyn Manson, has personified what was seen as the
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‘The Rude (or Wonderful?) Wasting of Old Time’
The title of this article is a fragment from “On Seeing the Elgin Marbles” (written by an impassioned John Keats
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From a Former Petersonite: In Defence of Jordan Peterson
Deemed by his opponents reactionary, alt-right, transphobic, sexist, misogynistic, and ultimately “dangerous”, the controversial Jordan Peterson, who was a few
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Constitutional Monarchy and the Mockery of Democracy
For all of our posturing about being one of the world’s oldest democracies, the U.K. undermines its democratic processes with
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The Plus Size of Not Being Plus Sized: Vertically Integrated Projects
Whenever St Andrews manages to beat Oxford in the university rankings (ha), a great deal of fuss is made about
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The SDP and Social Democracy in Britain
A couple of Sunday Times’ ago, Rod Liddle wrote an article entitled “My party had definitely caught the public mood.
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COVID-19 and Women in Medicine
Female health is in a state of crisis. Like their male counterparts on the medical frontline, female workers are susceptible
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US Politics: Bide(n) His Time
The relief is tangible. You could feel it walking along Market Street last November when, after an agonising week, the
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On the Dying Art of Password-Crafting
Allow me to begin this article with a hazard warning: I am about to demonstrate an outrageous disregard for digital
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