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...
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Nov 10, 2019
One more game wouldn’t hurt anyone, right?
Welcome to the second period in Maastricht University; where the strife for academic excellence continues. That means visits to the...
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Nov 6, 2019
Let’s F*ck up Some Commas
You’ve heard of the sandwich that started World War One, now get ready for: The Semicolon Which Almost Prevented Responsibility for...
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Nov 3, 2019
Whatever happened to Sunny Spain?
At a time of year when most of us head to the bars to show off our monstrous side to celebrate Halloween (costumed with varying degrees...
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Nov 2, 2019
Saudi Arabia’s Scary Politics
Two days ago, it was Halloween; that beautiful time of year where one can spot a very drunk Harry Potter hold back a vampire’s hair while...
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Oct 29, 2019
A Run among the Tombstones
The living come with grassy tread To read the gravestones on the hill; The graveyard draws the living still, But never any more the dead....
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Oct 27, 2019
Maastricht in state of emergency: what we missed
As in every proper university town, the daily routine in Maastricht’s streets, pubs and seminar rooms is occasionally interrupted by an...
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Oct 26, 2019
The Different Faces of Volunteering
The llamas I herded being good for once Imagine being in a strange country, thousands of kilometres away from anything familiar, trying...
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Oct 20, 2019
Big People Tweet and Small People Suffer
Yesterday hundreds of villagers in Afghanistan came together to bury their loved ones and share their grief with each other and the...
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Oct 13, 2019
Paying the price for the man who forgot the Art of the Deal
It should not be news that the United States has pulled its troops from Syria, leaving the Kurdish forces alone in their fight against...
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Oct 6, 2019
Losing Anonymity
This week in the news we are going to take a step back from the politics of the West and turn our heads towards the East. Hong Kong has...
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Sep 29, 2019
A Battle of the Balls Up
This week on the hit show, ‘Oh Brother’ … The Democratic Party has begun its impeachment charge on President Trump. However, this time...
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Sep 24, 2019
The Three Faces of Today’s Politics
Two-faced What a week UK’s Boris Johnson is having. BoJo’s no-show featured heavily in a prop comedy skit skilfully put on by...
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Sep 23, 2019
Who is your prospective room-mate?
Finding a room in Maastricht can be a mission. By now that’s not a secret anymore. Almost everyone knows the struggle and people are...
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Sep 22, 2019
The Landbouwbelang – A Space for All?
New year, new faces, old faces, same spaces. The usual things that are said in September I suppose. This is certainly the case for me,...
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Sep 15, 2019
The Big Man is Dead, Long Live the Big Man
Recently, the world was given the news that Robert Mugabe has passed away. For some, this does not mean much, or have much of an impact...
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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...
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Jun 2, 2019
EU Politics: Another Day in the Office?
Karl Marx once said: “Men make their own history not under circumstances they themselves have chosen, but under the given and inherited...
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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...
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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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