• King’s Court: Small Boats, Big Row: How The Supreme Court Ruling Impacts Rishi’s Rwanda Plan

    Staff writer Lily Powell gives her verdict on the Supreme Court’s Rwanda Plan ruling and the future for the plan. The judgment is in and the government’s policy is unlawful.  The Supreme Court unanimously upheld the Court of Appeal’s ruling that the Conservative’s plan to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda breaches human rights. The policy, announced in April 2022, was often referred to as the ‘stop the boats’ plan and sought to send anyone illegally entering the UK to Rwanda to claim asylum there.   The government has already spent over £140m on the scheme, however no one has been sent…

  • David Cameron Makes His Not-So-Anticipated Return

    Staff writer Ella Buckley discusses former Prime Minister David Cameron’s return to frontline politics as Foreign Secretary. If you did a double-take the morning of 13 November when looking through your phone notifications, I wouldn’t blame you – nor would you be alone. It is true, not some confusing dream, that former Prime Minister David Cameron (now known as Lord Cameron) has returned to cabinet, as Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s Foreign Secretary. The news was announced as part of Sunak’s newest cabinet reshuffle in which, less surprisingly, Sunak sacked former Home Secretary Suella Braverman (a move that some of us…

  • Solidarity in Action: Parisians Rally Against Sexist and Sexual Violence 

    For this year’s International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, which falls on the 25th of November, protests were held in Paris and other big cities across France to raise awareness of, and advocate against, acts of gender-based violence. Within the first couple of weeks since moving to Paris, I found myself engaged in a deep conversation with my fellow exchange students about the delights of having moved to the city. However, our conversation took a gradual turn into an intense exchange of how unsafe we felt in Paris as young women, a sentiment that echoed our previous…

  • L’A69, projet autoroutier absurde? 

    Décrié pour son absurdité, son anachronisme et son inutilité, le projet autoroutier de l’A69 a fait couler beaucoup d’encre depuis octobre. Nous sommes allés à la rencontre d’étudiants engagés contre sa construction pour y voir plus clair. Après les contestations autour des méga bassines de Sainte-Soline en mars, une nouvelle mobilisation contre un projet présentant des risques pour notre environnement a envahi les médias depuis le mois d’octobre. L’A69 est une autoroute en cours de construction devant relier Castres et Toulouse. Déclarée d’utilité publique en 2018, sa réalisation a débuté en mars dernier, avant d’être freinée par une forte mobilisation. Le…

  • Le syndicalisme étudiant à la croisée des chemins ?

    Retour sur la conférence de Benoît Hamon, Sophie Binet, Raphaëlle Rémy-Leleu et Guillaume Hoibian Ce jeudi 9 novembre, La Péniche a couvert la conférence sur le syndicalisme et la convergence des luttes organisée par l’UNEF. Parmi les invités, tous sont d’anciens militants à l’UNEF : Benoît Hamon, ancien ministre de l’enseignement supérieur et de la recherche et candidat à l’élection présidentielle de 2017 ; Sophie Binet, secrétaire générale de la CGT ; Raphaëlle Rémy-Leleu, conseillère de Paris et membre d’Europe Écologie les Verts ; et Guillaume Hoibian, historien des mouvements étudiants. 19h15. L’amphi Chapsal se remplit peu à peu, entre…