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We need to talk about the Sith

The last three editorials that I have worked on have been relatively lighthearted, with topics including American gun violence, the Paris tragedy and pretentious academic writing. This week, I need…

The effect of Ellie Harrison

The question of what constitutes art has been argued over for thousands of years. In 1917 Marcel Duchamp signed and dated a urinal, titled it ‘Fountain’ and exhibited it as…

A critical examination of pretentious academic writing

‘The absolutely facial identity of existence/the proportion of the new creation sans depth/the light itself ex nihilo: the dark itself univocally identified, i.e., not self-identity identity itself equivocally, not the…

Frances on Francis: A profile of the Pope

As a non-practising Catholic that only attends church at Christmas and Easter, (mainly for the hymns), Pope Francis interests me enormously; he is a breath of fresh air for the…

Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité

Liberté: the right to do that which does not harm others. It is the validity of this ideal that allows us to carry on with life as normal. We watch…

A perspective on the familiarity of guns in American culture

I once watched in awe as a distant relative shot down a small tree with a Uzi Submachine gun. The sheer speed at which the clip unloaded initially lead me…

The dangerously selective consumption of news via social media

The romanticiastion of print media is not merely for professional or even aspirational journalists to feed their egos by having their name in print. It is much bigger than this.…

The need to promote a healthy discourse on consent

Last week The Tab posted a national survey on sexual assault for students across the United Kingdom to take. Once having entered their gender, age, year, and place of study,…