‘Joy’ is the embattled but uplifting tale of Joy Mangano and her Miracle Mop, arguably not the most glamorous device, but a game-changer for homemakers at the time; today, the woman is an entrepreneurial legend. […]
New Year, New You?
Why wait until the New Year to be a ‘new you’? New Year’s Eve is something I’ve never been able to get excited about. It’s an evening where people get blind drunk and pledge to […]
Top 20 Tracks of 2015
We’ve put together a list of 20 of our favourite songs from 2015. 20. Guy Garvey – Harder Edges Elbow frontman Guy Garvey released his first solo album, Courting the Squall, late this year. ‘Harder […]
Postcards from Abroad: Washington, USA
Bex Gray is a third year Politics and Parliamentary Studies student currently working in the United States. She is spending this semester in Washington DC, interning for Congressman Don Young, representative for All Alaska in […]
Freeview flicks of the week: Citizen Kane, 21 Jump Street and Amy
Sunday 3rd Citizen Kane BBC4 9pm Alright film buffs, no excuses now. If you haven’t already seen the father of all films, now is your chance. Even if you just watch this one to tick the […]
Gryphons Get Going on the Ice
LEEDS Gryphons has a new Ice Hockey Club, the first ever at the University of Leeds. LUUIHC is a mixed gender sports club, welcoming those of all abilities! The Gryphons are currently leading their […]
Object Lessons at The Henry Moore Institute
An ‘object lesson’ is a style of teaching popularised in British schools during the early nineteenth century. The idea is that students were presented with an object lesson box that acted as a sort of […]
New Year’s Resolutions: making the write move
I’m interested to know if anyone has kept a New Year’s resolution past Valentine’s Day – because I definitely haven’t. In fact I rarely keep one past the 4th January – my resolutions of working […]
MENTAL HEALTH A-Z: J is for Juggling
Dubious title; I know. But bear with me. In short: life is a sort of juggling act, especially if you are a student. Living away from home becomes the rather difficult task of balancing work […]
End of an Era: Downton Abbey
I can’t imagine there are many TV programmes that would have three generations of my family eagerly anticipating Christmas day. Admittedly, it’s not one of my most shouted about guilty pleasures, because at what point […]
Eight Christmas Gifts You Never Wanted…
You have had your perfect Christmas gift in mind for months. You have spent one too many afternoons gazing longingly into shop window displays, imagining how much better life will be once that gift is […]
Leeds burglar who targeted student houses is jailed
A 44 year old man, Conrad Cooke, has been sentenced to two years and eight months in jail over a series of robberies in Leeds. Cooke specifically targeted student houses in Headingley and Burley. Cooke […]