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...
If the citizens of a democracy are not well informed, is that democracy imperilled? ___ By Michal A. Davis INTRODUCTION The purpose of my essay is twofold. Initially, I intend to explore the failure of educational systems to deliver on the notion of a ‘well-informed’ citizenry and how this has detrimentally impacted the democratic consensus which the ‘west’ has maintained since the end of the second world war eliciting a shift towards populist politics. Secondly, I wish to delve into the means by which democracy is threatened on a national (UK) and global scale by a rise in anarchist or authoritarian predilections among the population and whether this is as a result of citizens being ill-informed. The state of democracy is one that has become a highly contemporaneous issue in recent years. Kamala Harris partially ran her failed campaign on the basis of the preservation of American democracy marking out Donald Trump as an authoritarian. Trump has now been president for over one ...