She Said: Breaking the Harvey Weinstein story
You could hear a pin drop in the Emmanuel Centre as New York Times investigative journalists Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey recounted the years leading up to 5th October 2017 – the day they broke…
Investigations
Doing it for the culture: Marketing and P.C culture
The recent Dolce and Gabbana and M&S ads controversy shows people are becoming more “woke” and are calling anything that is politically incorrect. With a generation that is outspoken and socially aware, millennials are social…
Renationalisation for the UK’s rail system?
Every Londoner has some point in their life experienced the Monday madness on the underground. Long queues to tap-in, watching three tubes go by before you can even see the yellow line, shuffling along the…
Want a different contraceptive pill? “The NHS can’t afford it”
Contraception is supposed to be free for every man and women through the NHS. With more than 40 options of oral contraceptive pills, why do doctors keep prescribing the same ones? When Laura*, 22, from…
Thongs Out For Consent
More than one year in since the #MeToo movement has emerged and yet, prejudices that lie around sexual victims aren’t put to rest. The case in Cork at the beginning of November sparked outrage after a…
Faces of discrimination: “It’s shocking because you don’t expect it to happen.”
Religious hate crime has risen by 40% in England and Wales – and more than half is directed at Muslims. A writer, who wishes to remain anonymous, agreed to be interviewed by the Voice of…
Faces of discrimination: “They assume because I’m black, I can’t be in a senior role”
A melting pot of cultures with more than 300 languages spoken and 200 different countries represented, a population of nearly nine million inhabitants, London is a city of everyone, for everyone. Or so we’d like…
Faces of discrimination: “It was really quite nasty”
It’s not a cliché that we’re still talking about discrimination in 2018. If we are to quote the latest Global Gender Gap Report , we haven’t progressed at all in the past ten years. The UK joins Slovakia and…
Obesity: A growing problem for England
Almost two-thirds of adults (64%) in England are overweight or obese, a recent study by the NHS has found. The study also found that almost a third (30%) of children aged 2-15 were overweight or…
Equality groups disappointed by ethnic academic pay gap
Ethnic minority professors in the UK earn less than their white colleagues, according to a recent study by the BBC. An Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) spokesperson told the Voice of London: “It is…