Dear all, Upon inheriting the Looking Glass from our predecessors, we identified a number of key issues. Firstly, there were simply not enough articles being published, due both to a lack of submissions from the school community and limited responsiveness from the previous Academic Team. Secondly, the Looking Glass had not been advertised or explained effectively enough to the wider school community. As a result, we plan to implement a more consistent and engaging stream of articles on the Looking Glass. As part of this initiative, we are looking to recruit a select group of keen writers from across the lower school who would be willing to produce one high-quality piece of writing, discussion, or media each month for publication on the Looking Glass. We believe this will be hugely beneficial both to the school community, which will gain access to a wider range of opinions and viewpoints, and to prospective writers, who will be able to reference their experience contributing to the Look...
STEFAN MAKHOUL Academia can often be an echo chamber, where the same (typically left wing) ideas bounce around and fester, while the rest of the country looks on with contempt. There is undeniably a certain amount of classism endemic to academia and the media which makes them naturally opposed to Brexit. Nationalist sentiments are often viewed as ‘simple’. However Brexit is, on a purely economic basis, a bad idea. As one would be hard pressed to find a way in which the UK is economically better of outside of the EU than in it, there must be more to people's views on the issue than simply economics. The past decade has seen a rise in (in many cases extreme) right wing sentiment in the UK. In the 2015 general election, a total of 12.6% of the United Kingdom voted for UKIP – a far-right nationalist party which harbours strong nationalistic sentiments. During its period of activity, the EDL ran small but vocal protests, decrying the increase in immigration and what they perceive as a f...