The Empire awarded imperial colonisers with stolen wealth and freedom just over a century ago, yet we sit today isolated and dispersed, with no individual culture to call our own. Britain is a concept tied together by fragments of international suffrage, and in 2016, over seventeen million Britons fought to maintain this position of power within a global, westernised hierarchy during the Brexit referendum. 

Fast fashion is on the rise, and brands are coming up with trends and new collections faster than ever. They justify the need for more clothes at cheap prices, and an entirely new collection every season. But who pays the real price for cheap clothing?

In 2017, the first nursing homes in England and Wales welcomed young orphaned children for a few hours each day. Since 1976, when a nursery school and care home were merged in Tokyo, this practice of intergenerational care has been introduced in several countries, and promoted in 2017 with the UK with the Channel 4 series “Old People’s Home for 4-Year-Olds”. The same year it was released, the intergenerational care home Nightingale House in Wandsworth set up a nursery on the same site as its nursing home.

Although what now seems to be in another lifetime, Brexit used to heavily dominate our headlines. The constant back-and-forth between Westminster and Brussels kept many on the edge of their seats, anticipating what life will be like once we finally leave the EU. However, less has been given to the impact this will have on our human rights, more specifically, LGBTQ+ rights. While there has been no dramatic change overnight, despite the transition period having passed, the EU can no longer be used as a preventative barrier to new laws or legislation being overturned.

The most recent legislative move towards fully-legalised abortion in Northern Ireland was hailed as a progressive step for women’s rights. Yet, not even a year after its passage in 2020, an attempt to stall and even reverse this progress has been made by the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), who are once again seeking to amend the law.

The election of President Joe Biden was supposed to release a fresh breath of air following the tumultuous four-year reign of Donald Trump. Yet at a recent CNN town hall in Milwaukee, Biden wilted at the opportunity to introduce drastic changes to tackle America's crippling student loan crisis, raising doubts about whether the new President is really a break from the status quo.

In the current world where COVID-19 is the biggest threat to most, Myanmar’s people are risking their lives on the streets, in their homes, and online to fight for their fundamental human rights.

In 2020, the British economy suffered its worst annual downturn in 300 years as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. 

Multiple countries are increasingly joining the international trend towards promoting personal autonomy through legalising assisted dying, one in which the UK is an outlier. Unfortunately, the law surrounding this area has remained stagnant for more than 50 years, even as the society around it, such as the British Medical Association, religions, and the political landscape’s moves to accept it.