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...
By Karam Chaggar, (L6T) In recent times, there has been an exacerbation in anti Tik-Tok zeal - the criticism of the platform outlined by policy makers is primarily one concerned with ‘national security’, insisting that Tik Tok excessive access to user’s data can lend itself to Beijing’s aim of world domination. Whilst there is little doubt to be cast over the invasive data harvesting deployed by the Chinese social media giant, the more worrying impact of Tik Tok is identifiable in what it has done to our attention spans - the persistent, endless stream of immediate gratification is eroding our brains. And this epidemic of non stop satisfaction has infected our political and economic landscape - take the revolving door of 10 Downing Street, or COVID hysteria. The scourge of short termism is not a modern episode - as we will explore, the lack of a palpable project to steer our nation has culminated in what we see now: an economy projected to perform worse than Russia’s. The unrave...