Will the government’s ‘free-speech champion’ silence students?

27th February 2021 Leicester Student Magazine Brooke Cadwell, Conservative government, Editor: Toby Cray, free speech, government, politics, Society, students, university

The free-speech champion, announced early this month, is set to ‘protect’ the legal rights of students and staff on campus — but will it really? Or could it just be another power grab by the government?

Opinion

Brexit is now a lonely revolt

24th January 202122nd January 2021 Leicester Student Magazine Brexit, Conservative government, Editor: Rhiannon Jenkins, frexit, let's recover our democracy, Opinion, politics, Toby Blewett, United Kingdom

Britain’s decision to leave the European Union was once heralded as a watershed moment in European politics, a flagbearer to a coming wave of anti-globalist populism and the death knell to the European Integration Project. Five years on, no one has followed Britain’s charge.