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Piers Eaton

Opinion Politics Print Edition 

Rising impact of internet radicals

May 17, 2019May 17, 2019 sub.editors 0 Comments Piers Eaton

By Piers Eaton 23rd April 2019 marked the one-year anniversary of the Toronto van attack carried out by Alek Minassian which killed 10 innocent pedestrians less than 20 miles from the house I grew up in. On March 15th 2019,

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National Sport Sport 

Super Bowl LIII Preview

January 31, 2019 sub.editors 0 Comments Piers Eaton

Piers Eaton looks ahead to Super Bowl LIII between Los Angeles Rams and New England Patriots. Will the Pats make up for their defeat in Super Bowl LII?

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Food and Drink Indigo Print Edition 

Crafty deceit: why craft beer is trying to trick you

December 2, 2018 sub.editors 0 Comments Piers Eaton

Food and Drink looks at craft beer, answering what it means for beer to be ‘craft’ and why craft beer has exploded in popularity.

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Politics Print Edition World Politics 

Denial: The new party rhetoric

November 15, 2018November 14, 2018 sub.editors 0 Comments Piers Eaton

Climate change denial is a rallying cry that seems to have been taken up increasingly by far-right groups and political parties, Piers Eaton examines why they use it to galvanise support.

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Politics UK Politics 

Brexit: Two years of rhetoric

November 1, 2018November 1, 2018 sub.editors 0 Comments Piers Eaton

Piers Eaton looks at the rhetoric surrounding Brexit over the past two years and argues that instead of hearing the answers to the large questions affecting our exit, ‘all we are hearing is rhetoric’.

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Food and Drink Indigo Print Edition 

New year, new meals

October 19, 2018 sub.editors 0 Comments Constance Lam, Piers Eaton, Rebecca Russell

“What student kitchen would be complete without a bottle of soy sauce?” Food and Drink reveal the kitchen cupboard basics they could not go without.

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Opinion Politics UK Politics World Politics 

“Moving the Goalposts”: the danger of people changing their defences, not their stances

August 15, 2018 sub.editors 0 Comments Piers Eaton

“With Trump, the story seems to change…” Piers Eaton argues of the dangers of “moving the goalposts” and the damaging effect it has had on recent political discourse.

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Opinion Politics 

Marx and AI, a future for 19th century political philosophy?

May 13, 2018May 12, 2018 sub.editors 1 Comment Piers Eaton

Piers Eaton commemorates Marx’s 200th Birthday by discussing Marxism’s significance for the modern world in relation to AI technology.

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