Wiliam Hunter

I'm Wiliam Hunter, a MA Newspaper Journalism student at City, University of London and freelance writer. I am interested in taking on challenging stories that go deeper into the people behind the facts.

What is Moss.Earth’s MC02 token? The world’s first green digital asset - 24/7 Crypto

By tokenising carbon credits Moss.Earth hopes to offer an easier, more transparent way for companies and individuals to offset their carbon footprint. But what is Moss.Earth’s MC02 token? 27/7 Crypto spoke to the founder of the carbon credit token to bring you everything you need to know.

The Spice Must Flow: Why Crypto Brokers Spent $3Million to Buy a Rare Dune Book | HackerNoon

The Spice Must Flow: Why Crypto Brokers Spent $3Million to Buy a Rare Dune Book While Frank Herbert’s 1965 sci-fi masterpiece, Dune, has jumped to mainstream popularity with Denis Villeneuve taking the reigns of the most recent movie adaptation, among the die-hard community of fans there is one film adaptation that has legendary status. Legendary precisely because it doesn't exist. In 1974 the visionary film-maker, tarot expert, and author Alejandro Jodorowsky embarked on what was perhaps the

A Case Study of Failure: A Varsity investigation into Homerton’s welfare crisis

All names of students have been changed to preserve anonymity On October 12th, Homerton for Consent published an open letter publicly criticising the “mistrust and mishandling of sexual misconduct and disciplinary complaints” at Homerton College. The open letter, which now has over 100 signatures, stated that “many survivors are currently being ignored by senior staff members when contacting them about sexual misconduct issues including urgent/immediate safety concerns”. The letter also put pr

Five years of University admissions statistics reveals the disadvantages faced by state-educated students

A Freedom of Information (FOI) request passed onto Varsity shows the disparities in application and acceptance rates based on pupils’ educational background, revealing that these rates are lower for students with no grammar or private school backgrounds. The data from the FOI also brings into question the ways in which students are categorised based on their prior education. The FOI data covers admissions statistics for UK students in all 31 colleges between 2014 and 2019. The data breaks up ap

Cambridge academic proposes voluntary infection as a possible lockdown exit strategy

Dr Chris Hope, Emeritus Reader in Policy Modelling at the Judge Business School, proposes the possibility of a lockdown exit strategy based on voluntary infection. In his ‘utilitarian analysis’, Hope suggests that ‘the Government could offer the opportunity for healthy people to choose to be immediately infected with COVID-19 in a controlled way and then confined to their homes until they are no longer infectious.’ Dr Hope, who is a Fellow of Clare Hall, was previously the specialist advisor t