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Afua Hirsch

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Are universities safe for female students?

These are things I have heard from real-life female university students. “If it happens at university and we were both drunk, is it still…

Jun 16, 2015

Are universities safe for female students?

Jun 16, 2015

Duelling Aristocrats, they are not

Why too many young black men are still getting life sentences for being in the wrong place, at the wrong time

Feb 5, 2015

Duelling Aristocrats, they are not

Feb 5, 2015

I Can’t Breathe… Again

Andre is British. He has lived in the UK since he was three months old. He came to the UK from the Democratic Republic of Congo as an…

Dec 19, 2014

I Can’t Breathe… Again

Dec 19, 2014

Sweetening the Blob

Sep 30, 2014

Sweetening the Blob

Sep 30, 2014

Ties That Grind

Is this exhibition art? Or racism?

Sep 25, 2014

Ties That Grind

Sep 25, 2014

The Gap They Fill

How a small number of extremists are tapping into something big

Sep 15, 2014

The Gap They Fill

Sep 15, 2014

Why don’t young people vote?

This is one young woman’s explanation as to why young people don’t vote — you could call it the tattoo theory of democracy. “The thought,…

Sep 1, 2014

Why don’t young people vote?

Sep 1, 2014

University — to go, or not to go

If politics is a study in U-turns and half-truths, then the story of university places should be a core module.

Aug 14, 2014

University — to go, or not to go

Aug 14, 2014

Good, Clean Teens

Are young people really taking fewer drugs?

Jul 24, 2014

Good, Clean Teens

Jul 24, 2014

Trojan Horse — what next for the Muslim community?

The Living Islam Festival — or “Muslim Glastonbury” as it’s organisers would like it to be known — is on again in a few days, and this time…

Jul 23, 2014

Trojan Horse — what next for the Muslim community?

Jul 23, 2014

Afua Hirsch

Afua Hirsch

1.96K Followers

Social Affairs and Education Editor, Sky News. Used to cover West Africa for the Guardian newspaper, and before that, legal affairs.

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