Criticism has deservedly avoided Stuart Lancaster over his three year tenure, however performances and results similar to the last two weeks’ will ultimately lead to increased scrutiny. In truth the performances since half time against […]
Confessions of a teenage Essex Girl
I’m from Essex. That looks odd all spelled out, I can’t remember the last time I wrote it down. Essex: that word that I learned in junior school, just the forth line of my address. […]
Botox: All fill and no thrill
Cosmetic surgery is a very hot topic in the news at the moment – whether it concerns the almost unrecognisable Renee Zellweger, Kyle Jenner’s ever expanding lips or Kim Kardashian’s infamous rear-end. Most articles superficially […]
BUCS Review: Strong week for Gryphons
This week saw a round of cup fixtures for the Uni sides, with plenty of highs and lows across the board. The Rugby Union 4s made the most of their weak opposition by strolling to a […]
‘Run The Jewels 2’ Album Review
Hip-hops most inimitable tag team, Southern kingpin Killer Mike and underground overlord El-P, team up once again for another serving of volatile smack talk, and this time around they’ve gotten even angrier. They don’t waste […]
Leeds’ fightback squashes Bristol’s hopes
Wednesday at the Gryphon Centre saw the Women’s Squash 1s play their most important match of the season against the University of Bristol to determine whether they would be placed in the top or bottom […]
This week we love…
Oscar de la Renta Oscar said himself that “when a woman falls in love with something so much that she wants to wear it – it is at that point only that it becomes […]
The New World, by Andrew Motion
Following in the path of his last novel Silver, Andrew Motion’s most recent work, The New World is an adventure story that sweeps readers right back into the age of Stevenson’s Treasure Island. Motion continues […]
We meat again: vague-etarianism
After being a vegetarian for seven years, the editor of The Gryphon, Jasmine Andersson, discusses why she decided to start eating meat again, the social pressures of being a vegetarian and her reasons for initialling giving […]
Green Action
‘ We are not just a little Green shop of hippies giving out free bread, jamming to reggae, and selling “rabbit” food. We are more, we promise.’ Green Action is a society that takes practical […]
Halloweiner
When I first realised that I’d accidentally booked to go home for Halloween I was gutted. It’s my last year as a student in Leeds, and I’ve been fostering grand plans about magnificent house parties […]
Toast of London: Man With the Golden Voice
You could be forgiven for assuming that Matt Berry is just a man who has made a career out of saying things in a funny voice. Although it was Channel 4’s The IT Crowd that […]