After the recent Paris attacks, gig security is set to be on the increase. How much will this affect our experience of going to gigs? What happened in Paris was a tragedy, we can […]
Fashion Fortnightly: The News Round-up
The past fortnight has supplied the goods, with the announcement and preview of the ASOS bridal range, the heavily anticipated BFAs and Grace Coddington’s strong dislike for Instagram. ASOS launches bridal range ASOS have gone […]
Labour, there is no virtue in division, only unity
One of the greatest lessons yet to be learned is that a political party, of any colour, has to be united to stand even the remotest chance of winning. Robert Webb’s and other former Labour […]
Weird Crowdfunding Tech
Creative, original and every now and then bizarre; that is potentially the best way to describe crowdfunding. Since the mid 2000’s the amount of people contributing to crowdfunding has grown exponentially and it is an […]
8 of the Best Science Discoveries this Week
Massive stars weight loss secret revealed: Astronomers have managed to analyse the light from VY Canis Majoris, one of the largest stars in our galaxy. This star throws off a huge amount of gas in […]
Interfaith Week: A Fresher’s Glimpse at LUU’s Wide Range of Faith Societies
Interfaith week, was, for me, the most amazing week of university so far, and this is coming from someone who’s loved every minute of my uni experience since Freshers week. Personally, the interfaith fun started […]
Mars – The Red Ringed Planet
Beyonce Knowles, when addressing all of the single ladies, suggested that ‘if you liked it then you should have put a ring on it’. Well, this week, Nature Geoscience have published the news that the […]
In The Spotlight: Leeds Labour Students
This Week, The Gryphon interviews Leeds Labour Student’s External Canvassing Coordinator, Liron Velleman, to find out more about what the society has to offer. Leeds Labour Students has a long history of bringing together Labour-supporting […]
Post-Franco Spain: A case of voluntary amnesia
With last week marking forty years since the death of its late dictator, Francisco Franco, a familiar silence fell over Spain. Since his passing in 1975, the discussion of Franco’s totalitarian regime and its atrocities […]
Germany: a model for energy in the future?
Germany is moving away from nuclear and fossil fuels as an energy resource and are moving towards a more renewable future. Renewables now make up 27% of the energy for Germany’s electricity. This has been […]
Growing Steel Crisis: Testing the Mettle of UK Steel-makers
Something is up with the steel industry, something much more complex than productivity or profit. What was once a flagship for industrial might, today, the current slump suffered by British steel jeopardises thousands of jobs, […]
The Republican race: Funny or frightening?
When Donald Trump descended the escalator in the lobby of Trump Tower accompanied by the sound of Neil Young’s “Rockin’ In the Free World”, across America everybody held their breath. As the long-awaited announcement came […]