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A CALL TO CREATIVITY

Hello and welcome to The Looking Glass, WBGS' very own Academic Blog.  This year we are planning to breathe new life into this amazing blog as the Academic Head Boy team for 2025- 2026! However, at the Looking Glass we need your help to catapult this blog into it's GOLDEN AGE.  We need your articles, your essays, your opinions and your finest work to MAKE THE LOOKING GLASS GREAT AGAIN! If you have read something interesting or watched something that sparked a thought on social media -  WRITE ABOUT IT! If you entered a competition, however big or small - WRITE ABOUT IT! If you are interested in a specific field, issue or period - WRITE ABOUT IT! If you have produced artwork, a piece of music or creative writing - WE WILL PUBLISH IT! Your creative skills have been called to action - now we must muster to create, discover and explore.  You are the creative minds of the future. The Plato's, the Newtons, the Angelo's, the Nietzsche's. This is your calling.  This is Y...
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Andrew Tate: Love or Hate (Lunch Time Talks Ep1)

SHUN KEI JONATHAN TANG (U6) This video is the first in an upcoming series of podcasts called 'Lunch Time Talks', hearing our students' opinions on current affairs. I sit down with some of the lads from Watford Boys and discuss the controversial and polarising internet sensation of Andrew Tate. Is he good or bad? Do you love him or hate him?
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North Korea: Ideal, or Illusion?

  ARYAN KAUL (U6) Introduction When we hear the words “North Korea”, What comes to mind? An isolated country with a strict Communist regime? A country run by a brutal dictator with a cult of personality? A country whose frequent missile launches and nuclear tests we should be afraid of?  During its seventy-four year history, North Korea has been the subject of much speculation. The West has condemned North Korea for its nuclear tests and human rights abuses, and North Korea is perhaps best known for its family of mysterious and wealthy supreme leaders - the Kims. In this regard, North Korea could either be perceived as an ideal society, or an illusion altogether. An ideal society, because of its Communist principles and their totalitarian application by the Kim dictators, and due to the fact that it was built on the scars of the Korean War. This in turn gives it an ethos that promotes its self-interest, while treating the West with contempt. On the other hand, North Korea coul...
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