Have a flick through this week’s top stories, curated by Cara Hene
Top Stories: 18th June
18th June 2021
The survival of monarchies in Southeast Asia
18th June 2021
In the UK’s political climate that we live in today, as we are concerned with many democratic current affairs such as political candidacy or election fraud, it easy for us to forget that there is a plurality of states existing under the structure of a monarchy, some without a republican or democratic framework. As of 2019, there are 44 sovereign states in the world with a monarch serving as head of state, 13 of which are in Asia.
Juneteenth
18th June 2021
Juneteenth, also widely known as Emancipation Day, is the American celebration to commemorate June the 19th, 1865, when African American slaves learnt they were officially free in Galveston, Texas.
A History of Oil
18th June 2021
Crude oil, otherwise known as unrefined petroleum, is a naturally occurring, yellowish-black liquid made up of hydrocarbons found beneath the Earth’s surface. The date at which oil was first discovered is disputed, however, historians agree that oil was first discovered in China.
Rating Late-Night Talk Show Hosts
18th June 2021
Late-night talk shows: the most entertaining way to get your news and the least entertaining way to get your celebrity gossip. Embarrassingly, watching late-night talk shows is my guilty pleasure, so I believe myself fairly qualified to rank some of the most well-known talk show hosts on American TV.