The time came around once again for New York to host the biggest names and the designers to watch this season. The past week we saw a rapper turned designer causing pandemonium on and off […]
Review: It’s Turtle Bay all the way down
February might be the shortest month of the year, but the wind and rain seem never-ending, and the glowing windows of the new Turtle Bay restaurant were a welcome sight that promised warmth and shelter. […]
LUU Music Society Campaign to Stop Old Bar Renovations
LUU Music Society (LUUMS) have launched a petition to prevent Old Bar from being renovated, as part of the union’s multi-million pound upgrade. The plans include new wooden chairs, chess board tables and wall graphics. […]
Who Gets Your Vote?
This week we interview Greg Whitaker and Jess Murray, who are both running to be your next Gryphon editor. Interviews with every Lead LUU candidate will appear online throughout next week. Interview with Greg Whitaker […]
Forum To Debate: “Should Equality Mean Equality?”
A proposal has been made to LUU’s ‘Better Union’ forum that the Union should “give a voice to those who are being silenced by those who claim their voices are too loud”. Gary Heyes, a […]
The Gryphon asks: Should societies be allowed to endorse lead LUU candidates?
Yes: I was lucky enough to be elected Education Officer of LUU in 2014, so I have some experience of the Leadership Race and the never-ending chase for society endorsements. They can be difficult to […]
Why Cameron thinks sex education does not need to be mandatory is beyond me
In another startling display of his total disconnect from reality, David Cameron recently decided not to make sex education mandatory for all schools. Despite a number of women within his own cabinet, as well as […]
“Freedom of speech is not a right, but a privilege”
A joke was recently made by Stephen Fry, in his capacity as host of the BAFTA awards. The response on social media illustrates how people, millennials in particular, are increasingly seeing free speech as a […]
Ask Not What Apple Can Do For Their Country
Tim Cook, CEO of Apple, wrote a letter to Apple customers last week. Posted on the company’s website, the tech boss explained that the company would not honour a request made by the FBI to […]
Review: The Magic Flute – Skilfully performed, clever and amusing
Opera Soc’s contemporary adaptation of the 1791 Mozartian opera, The Magic Flute, which ran last week in Stage@Leeds, is at once skilfully performed, clever and amusing. Set in a post-apocalyptic future, The Magic Flute tells of […]
Holly Rowan Hesson at &Model
The blurred image of a window, printed on an unbound canvas, is suspended against a wall and illuminated by two upward-pointing lights. The shadows crisscross over the photo and around the creaky, nineteenth-century room. This […]
Success for First Open House Exhibition
The back streets of the student inhabited Hyde Park provides the ideal setting for the first Open House Exhibitions event. A student run, hosted and exhibited art show from four artists, three from our very […]