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Emily Broughton (she/her) is a Blueprint Editor for the Culture section. She is in her second year at Oxford and studies English Literature and Language at Mansfield College.
In her spare time, she writes short stories only to force her friends and family to read them. She also loves horses, travel and talking about horses and travel.

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Image credit to Khamenei.ir Used under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via Wikimedia Commons. On 28 February 2026, the United States and Israel launched…

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