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Model Minorities... Asian Hate Crimes and COVID-19 by Alexius Sum

"17-year-old currently studying law, RE and History at A Levels." 1. Anti-Asian hate crimes during COVID-19. While the pandemic has wreaked havoc on people's health around the world, it has also resulted in an increase in hate crimes targeting a specific racial group. East Asians have recently been subjected to more heinous abuse than ever before and with COVID-19's origins in China, many uneducated individuals have taken it upon themselves to racially attack anyone Asian, believing that just because they are of Asian descent they need to be referred to as some disease. According to data from the UK police, hate crimes against East and Southeast Asians increased by 300 percent in the first quarter of 2020, compared to the same period in 2018 and 2019. From name calling, to physical abuse, there has been a wide range of attacks and they are damaging the safety of Asians in society. Jonathon Mok, 23 was just simply walking along Oxford Street when he heard the chants of

Room For Thought... Empty Homes For The Homeless by Trudy Atkin

"Hello! My name is Trudy and I am a 17 year old A level student. I am aiming to read law at university, and I'm highly interested in commercial law, land law and inequalities within the law. " To be homeless is a multifaceted circumstance, one that is often misconceived and generalised. A person can be legally homeless for many reasons, for example, if they are at risk of abuse, are living in unreasonable housing, unemployment – not forgetting the hidden homeless who are living in temporary accommodation, emergency housing, or squatting. Coronavirus induced an economic hardship on a myriad of people, and The Bank of England expects the unemployment rate to reach around 5.5% in the autumn.  With the ban on evictions being lifted, and the ‘Everyone In’ scheme (a plan that gave emergency accommodation to the homeless in the pandemic, saving around 266 lives) having finished, the transmission of Covid-19 is inevitable among those languishing in confined spaces or living on th