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In recognition of University College London’s Bicentenary, Her Royal Highness The Princess Royal visited UCL’s Bloomsbury campus to meet the students and staff involved in commemorating UCL’s landmark anniversary and to formally reopen UCL’s renovated Wilkins Building Cloisters.

Writing for The Guardian, Professor Philippe Marlière (UCL School of European Languages, Culture and Society) examines the political fallout after the death of a far-right activist in France and urges the left to take accountability to curb the rise of far-right movements.

Writing for The Conversation, Dr Christian Emery (UCL SSEES) examines the differing approaches of Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu toward Iran, and explains why Trump may still resort to military action if diplomatic talks collapse.

From stunning illuminations to inspiring Faces of UCL and a packed programme of events, Arts & Humanities is celebrating UCL’s bicentenary all year.

Prof Helen Chatterjee leads a co-produced report on Britain's ketamine crisis: New research from Blackpool argues for a creative community-based approach to the growing crisis of ketamine use

In the early twentieth century, there were two professors in the Department of Greek and Latin at UCL who were not only scholars of ancient literature but also wrote poetry in English.

"They learned how to operate in this globalised world and how to produce effectively...joining the EU was a big push for globalisation for Poland," said said Dr Pawel Bukowski (UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies) on Poland's economic success since joining the EU.

"It will be difficult to convince Putin now that he was wrong about anything. He points to Tehran to his doubting allies and says, ‘We would have been in their place,’” said Vladimir Pastukhov (UCL School of Slavonic & East European Studies).

“When writers ever-so-slightly misquote other writers, it’s often a kind of showing off. What they’re really saying is: 'I know this by heart,” said Dr Dennis Duncan (UCL English Language & Literature) on misquotations in literature.