Calais five years on: Covid, Brexit and hostile policies
Guest article by Carla Laudien, Fundraising and Events Executive at Maastricht Goes to Calais At the beginning of the last academic year,...
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Peter Pelzer
Apr 30, 2021
Rodchenkov Anti-Doping Act: a pragmatic step toward principled wilderness
In November 2020, almost unnoticed between a second wave of Covid infections and the nomination of Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court...
Céline Zahno
Mar 25, 2021
India’s Farmers rise up and the world is not watching
In the closing months of 2020, over a quarter billion people have taken to the streets of India to protest the new farming bills that...
Guest Writer
Mar 13, 2021
Arabia’s Temple of Dreams and the World’s Horrifying Nightmares.
“Hey, you, the unfair tyrants… You the lovers of the darkness… You the enemies of life… You’ve made fun of innocent people’s wounds, and...
Ethan Bergman
Feb 10, 2021
Political Poisoning – The Downfall of the Ultimate Silencer
“When poison becomes a habit, it ceases to injure” Assassinations are as old as all human societies. Whether you wish to replace a...
Ethan Bergman
Jan 17, 2021
Guns, Oil & Heat for the North Pole; The Actual Cold War
Sometimes the perception of power is more important than physical might. It seems Santa Claus will no longer have a monopoly on business...
Ethan Bergman
Jan 9, 2021
Football Hooliganism & Identity Hijack; Ajax’s Jewish Persona
The vast majority of sport club fan bases have a formed identity and culture which permits them to differentiate themselves from others,...
Marence Jurgens
Dec 30, 2020
Let us not forget our humanity.
Since February, societies worldwide have found themselves in a downward spiral of crisis. Negativity is all around and difficult to...
Paula Cepeda Gallo
Dec 23, 2020
Easy as ACB – On Amy Coney Barrett’s Induction Into the SCOTUS
From Ginsburg’s era of freedoms and equality to Coney Barrett’s conservative reign of dismantling minority rights. On September 18th of...
Ethan Bergman
Nov 13, 2020
Blowing the dogwhistle and dividing society
“Globohomo”, “Le Happy Merchant”, "Identitarianism », « Jogger », « Kalergi Plan », « Magapede », « Power level », « Shlomo », « Three...
Parthabi Kanungo
Nov 13, 2020
Nagorno-Karabakh - From forgotten conflict to settled dispute?
The year 2020 has sprung numerous surprises and geo-politics has certainly not been spared. If you have been following the political...
Peter Pelzer
Nov 11, 2020
Student Politics 101
Right now, as you are sipping your cup of tea, someone is out there in the bureaucratic wilderness representing you..
Brendan Hogan
Nov 5, 2020
Horizon 2020 to Horizon Europe…but what does this mean?
I’m often asked what the EU does. This question can be, and usually is, a loaded one. However, I do very much understand the need to know...
Suzon Mazataud
Nov 5, 2020
Women's Leadership in Climate Activism
Ever since the impressive actions of the Suffragettes in the early 20th century, a standard has been set for women activists. Women have...
Head Editor
Jan 21, 2020
Happy Holiday’s! Here’s an airstrike for you.
Happy Holiday’s! Here’s an airstrike for you. What’s better than starting off a new decade than the possibility of another conflict in...
Head Editor
Dec 5, 2019
The Dark Side of the Meme
The Dark Side of the Meme Memes really are quite something. Ubiquitous to most, but some of us still remember a time when they weren’t a...
Head Editor
Nov 14, 2019
Let’s “silly walk” away from Fascism
A few weeks ago, Greece witnessed one of the most interesting military parades in the last decades. A few female students in Athens...
Head Editor
Jun 8, 2019
Poorly Outsourced
Photograph by Sebastien Le Derout Before you start reading, I would like to mention that this post was originally made for a course I am...
Head Editor
May 26, 2019
The Game of Europe’s Thrones
After 8 years playing with our emotions, making us laugh, scream, jump and cry, Game of Thrones is over. The last episode divided the...
Head Editor
May 21, 2019
European Elections – Why I’m Going to Vote for the Social Democrats.
The European elections are coming up fast, a few days only separate us from the time we’ll have to go voting. In a recent article, we...
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