It has been one month since President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris were installed in their respective offices following months of campaigning, Republican-led attacks on the integrity of their election victory, and an insurrection at the US Capitol.
As of the 18th of February 2021, more than 16 million people have received their first coronavirus vaccination in the UK. The UK has also ordered 407 million doses of 7 different vaccines, making them one of the countries who ordered the most vaccine doses relative to their populations.
COVID-19 has taken a toll on all members of the population across the globe. The SARS COV-2 virus has been identified as a respiratory virus displaying a myriad of signs and symptoms. For many, an infection may lead to only mild symptoms or go entirely unnoticed. However, a significant proportion of infected individuals experience severe and debilitating consequences.
Innovative machine learning devices enable patients with debilitating conditions to conduct actions that were otherwise impossible. Brain-Computer Interfaces promise great development of therapies while showing potential for entertainment and cognitive enhancement. Concerns about privacy, agency and the essence of human existence justify this as the “greatest ethical challenge that neuroscience faces today”, leading to new parameters of personal technological invasiveness.
The upheaval of our lives due to COVID continues to reveal issues in our country. Our NHS has been worked to the bone, small businesses are forced to bring their shutters down permanently, and we are all cooped up at home. However, there is an issue that has been on the rise well before the pandemic. Homelessness in London.
With fixtures and in-person training cancelled, many of our sports clubs have not only been training and hosting socials virtually, but also doing some great charity work and raising awareness of a variety of causes. I spoke to Netball, Men’s Football and Boat Club to see what they’ve been up to over the past few months.
In 1970, as a callow seventeen-and-a-half-year old, I first set foot in Charterhouse Square in black cord jacket, old school tie and desert boots, the fashion at the time. I expect I was wearing trouserings of some sort and I was carrying an overlarge brief case my dear mother had given to her doctor to be. I stepped into the formidable presence of Professor Rotblat who interviewed all of his 1st M.B. students personally.
It has been almost a year and two months since the critically acclaimed (by my mum) first part of this crash course philosophy series was published. And although we have had not one but three lockdowns thanks to the efforts of our dear leader and his loyal lackey, I have managed to procrastinate this, the second part of the ‘What do we owe to each other’ series, until today, only a few weeks before my next ICA.
Due to poverty, many families are not able to afford lunch for their children; leading to concerns about students being malnourished and too hungry to concentrate at school. Access to free school meals has helped to tackle health inequalities, and to improve health issues such as obesity due to their healthy ingredients. Additionally, there has been a large improvement in the academic achievement for pupils living in poverty.
All you have to do is add your toppings in the morning on top of the base mixture and you are good to go. It is easily transported in Tupperware so that if you are running low on time, a mushy banana on TFL is not your only option.
Vegetarian and vegan food requires more imagination and care than simply cutting out an ingredient from a dish, therefore I present you with a solution to satisfy both carnivores and vegetable aficionados alike.
After a disruptive year for cinema, director, Chloé Zhao’s ‘Nomadland’ is a quiet neo-western drama that has become 2021’s Oscar frontrunner.
Between zoom calls, banana bread- baking and the tsunami of Covid-19 announcements, you may have missed the Government’s most recent decision relating to assisted dying. Earlier in December, Matt Hancock announced that the Government will allow terminally-ill people to travel to Dignitas during the current lockdown.
Submissions are now open for our second print issue of the year, ‘Spring Forward’! The deadline for any submissions is the 19th of February 2021, and will be printed for release in mid March.
The coronavirus response from the ‘could do better’ countries is oddly familiar to me. It is reminiscent of an essay deadline: pretending it is okay does not make it go away. The pressure simply escalates until you have to justify your inaction over the past few months and desperately try to salvage the situation. Despite England entering its second national lockdown, joining several European countries, some are not keen to enter lockdown.
