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...
SHREY CHANDARANA (L6) On Tuesday 7th March 2023, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and Home Secretary Suella Braverman announced the UK government’s latest attempt to solve the problem of illegal immigration into the UK. It’s a key issue in the UK, and an attractive one for a Conservative government to solve, considering it was a crucial part of the argument to vote for Britain to leave the EU in 2016 (with 65% of those who voted to Leave in 2016, having shown their support for the Conservatives in 2019), but the announcement of the bill has been controversial, with not only the government but also the public broadcaster, BBC being brought into disrepute. Now, if you’ve seen the exact wording of this announcement you’ll see why there has been such a large public backlash to the introduction of this bill. Specifically, the main selling point of this potential law is that people who arrive in the UK illegally will be detained and then removed within weeks of their arrival. They will...