WITH the end of the national lockdown on the cards for the near future, but with a true return to normality a little ways out of sight, everyone is asking themselves what they should do with their returning freedoms. INDEED, international travel, for various reasons, is not on the cards […]
Author: Reece Lee Harper
UoS expert: Gove’s ‘Orwellian’ FOI unit a threat to healthy government
RECENTLY-released details about a secretive and ‘Orwellian’ Government approach to freedom of information (FOI) – which allegedly involves the blacklisting of journalists – has caused a storm in the legal and journalistic worlds. The report, by openDemocracy, revealed that Whitehall departments are passing FOI requests through a ‘clearing house’ […]
Lockdown survival: the furry friends who have helped us through
THERE are few things people love more than their four-legged companions. Humanity has, from time immemorial, strode beside them and they have given us so much to cherish. In the dark times we find ourselves in now, the greatest gift they have given us has become ever more apparent; support. […]
US ELECTION 2020: why America’s drama is vital to young Brits like me
Search ‘US Election 2020’ to see all our coverage First-year UoS Journalism student Reece Harper, 18, spent the evening at his Darlington home, watching events unfold in American – and explains why he feels the drama across the Atlantic is as important to UK teenagers like him as it […]
US ELECTION 2020: the jargon-buster
Search ‘US Election 2020’ to see all our coverage POLITICS is full of jargon; weird words and confusing acronyms which politicians, pundits and commentators seem to love (perhaps because it makes them feel part of an ‘in-the-know elite’) but which leave the rest of us scratching our heads. So here […]