In the 20th century, English became the most commonly spoken language (including both native speakers and non-native speakers). This has recently been overtaken by the surge in the number of native speakers of Chinese and Spanish, which in turn begs the question – is the rise in multilingualism something to be welcomed, or rebuked?
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I remember the first time someone pointed out the hair on my face – I was 6 years old, living in Pakistan and playing a game of tag with some of my friends. The boy who tagged me called me muchard, an Urdu word which essentially means ‘someone with a moustache’ and ran away laughing. I…
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Trigger warning: heavy mentions of rape, as well as mentions of abuse and murder. My first experience with feminism was when I was fifteen, and one of my teachers gave a brief outline of what it meant and what it stood for. I didn’t really care for it much back then – the fact that…
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On the 13th of January 2017 British writer, thinker and theorist Mark Fisher committed suicide. Fisher, working as a visiting lecturer at Goldsmiths, University of London had started his academic career by completing a PhD in ‘Cybernetic Theory Fiction’ at the University of Warwick. However, most of Fisher’s most important work took place outside of…
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As a freshly certified computer science graduate, I am often served praise and admiration from people when I tell them what I have studied. ‘That will get a you a good job’, or ‘You’re going to be so rich’ are amongst the comments I receive, particularly from the aunties and uncles of the older generation…
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The pandemonium inside the walls and minds of the underclass provides entertaining television for a society obsessed with being reminded of just how lucky they are. The underclass is often presented as a chaotic blend of unfruitful habits and distasteful choices, but the level of disarray suffered is often inescapable. Growing up poor is chaotic.…
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I didn’t go to Jeremy Corbyn’s rally in Leamington Spa yesterday. I didn’t need to. I (and almost everyone else) already knew what he was going to say.
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Animated, engaging, inspiring, but still uncertain over Brexit: Jeremy Corbyn comes to Royal Leamington Spa.
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Me and my first love did not break up because we did not love each other anymore. We didn’t have any arguments. We were so happy together. But we had also moved very fast. Getting into a relationship at the age of fifteen and then being together for three years was a surprise to us…
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Ah, ghosting. Possibly one of the cruellest ways for a relationship to end – the complete and utter severance of relations by one person to the other. I do not mean the subtle fade away, in which conversations become more disparate and stunted. I mean full on ghosting, where the other person seems to disappear from…
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