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...
MICHAL DAVIS Crisis is the defining factor as to why governmental systems all over the world have for long been fuelled by the sacrifice and suffering of others. The period of intense difficulty or danger that a crisis represents can influence, and has greatly affected, our political environment. Our government today in the year 2022 has dodged and ducked its way out of being seriously caught out on innumerable occasions through the convenient appearance of attention-detracting crises. In truth though, this is the case of every operational government since the dawn of political philosophy and the foundation of the first Democratic state, in the form of classical Athens. Cicero, inspired by the founders of political philosophy such as Plato and Socrates, adopted a method and ideology of intense political scrutiny and major opposition to that of 'transparent tyranny'. He less famously stated that a crisis is the point at which people launch themselves into the perilously deep po...