Society – Leicester Student Magazine

Charlie Hebdo’s Meghan race bait isn’t ‘satire’ – it’s a cheap garner for relevancy, and it’s boring.

12th April 20214th August 2021 Ella Johnson blm, blogger, blogging, cartoon, Charlie Hebdo, column, current affairs, current events, Ella Johnson, Featured, media, Meghan Markle, monarchy, News, op-ed, Opinion, politics, Prince Harry, Prince Phillip, Racism, royal family, Satire, satirical, Society, students, university

Following the news of Prince Phillip’s death on Friday, French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo swiftly mounted their one-trick-pony, and by the very same evening had posted a topical cartoon to their Twitter, depicting ‘l’hommage d’Harry & Meghan au Prince Phillip’

Opinion

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

2020 May Be Over, But the Fight Against Racism Is Far from It, (even in the UK).

25th February 202113th April 2021 Leicester Student Magazine blm, politics, Racism, Shivani Ved, Society, UK

2020 may be over, but the fight against racism isn’t. Awareness of the Black Lives Matter movement should not die with 2020, and now, more than ever, it is vital that we continue to talk about it.