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...
Economic woes, distrust and the inability to disagree: Why Labour's Victory Won't Bring Instant Change
DISCLAIMER : This was written the week BEFORE the election results were announced. by Sam Waddell L6F When Britain wakes up to a Labour government on Friday morning, it will be a government which the majority of people have not voted for. Keir Starmer will potentially command the biggest majority of the post-war era, with the power to pass anything and everything he chooses to, manifesto pledge or not. The Labour party will have the power to, as the Conservatives did on no less than 4 occasions in the last decade, install a new, unelected Prime Minister with the same power as Keir. Ordinary Britons will see their tax burden increased yet again, having already risen to its highest level in the post-war era. And all of this without the majority of the British electorate backing the Labour party at the ballot box. This article is not intended to be an attack on the UK’s ‘First Past the Post’ voting system, although it does desperately need reform. Neither, despite my obvious misgivi...