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Liberation groups are a necessity for an inclusive university

It is standard practice at a lot of universities and the National Union of Students (NUS) to have groups which are specifically for marginalised groups to come together and organise on issues pertaining to them, and there are two very important principles behind this which must be respected: autonomy and self-definition. To this end, EUSA […]

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What can we learn about student politics from this year’s elections?

Conor Matchett recently wrote a piece in this section about the viability of candidates’ policies, and this is something which continued to bother me in this election cycle. There is little point in having candidates who run on platforms which promise changes that they are incapable of delivering. My favourite candidate this year was the newly […]