Joe Baker’s recently published Longbourn is a modern day rewriting of Pride and Prejudice from the perspective of the servants: quite right for a period currently besotted with the likes of the Crawleys. Baker’s novel can be […]
Music | Temples live
Temples The Cockpit 4/5 Where do you think of when someone mentions psychedelia? Spiritual (if drug-fuelled) journeys to India? 1960s LA in the summer? Certainly not the small midlands town of Kettering. Yet from this […]
TV | Fleming – Shaken but not quite stirred enough
It’s clear that James Bond was Ian Fleming’s idol; his books were his desired autobiography, with “you as you’d like to be”, as his wife is quick to point out to him in the new BBC […]
Film | Wes Anderson Q&A – "Cannes is a little bit hallucinatory"
Image: Fox Searchlight Pictures Ahead if the release of his new film The Grand Budapest Hotel we asked director Wes Anderson some of our nagging questions. Your films seem to be set in worlds just […]
News | Tequila breach advertising code
Six out of seven complaints, made by Leeds City Council against Tequila UK have been upheld by the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA). They found Tequila to be in breach of the Committee of Advertising Practice […]
News | Eng Soc hosts Weakest Link
EngSoc discovered whether it was students or lecturers who “would get more splinters from scratching their head” in their Weakest Link competition. The event was in aid of Reading Matters, a Yorkshire based charity. Lecturer […]
Sport | Netball – Tempers flair as Leeds fall to Hallam
Leeds 2s v Sheffield Hallam: After losing by just two against Hallam in the first half of the season, tensions were high going into the game. In a fixture with infamously bad umpiring, the seconds […]
Comment | The justice system, no justice for victims
This week the hyper-lenient sentence given to Lewis Gill hit the news. Lewis Gill’s almost entirely unprovoked attack on Andrew Young in Bournemouth last year was the result of the victim merely telling off Gill’s […]
Music | Album review – Foster the People
Foster the People Supermodel 3/5 Riding in on the same Nu-Wave movement which carried bands like MGMT and Phoenix, Foster the People’s dance-infused indie came to the music world’s attention with the catchy ’Pumped Up […]
Features | Students show support for struggling refugees
The UK government, this year, refused to raise asylum support rates, meaning they have not been changed since 2011 and leaving many refugees unable to provide for themselves and their families. To tackle this, University […]
News | Leeds Marrow cycle for Cash
Leeds Marrow have cycled for a whopping 24 hours as part of their ‘Miles4Marrow’ campaign. The 20 volunteers raised £332.46 in total for the Anthony Nolan charity, which performs lifesaving work running the stem cell […]
Sport | Between the Lines – Pardew's at it again
BTL has been spoilt for choice this week as the world of football has shown its more vicious side with a cavalcade of incidents, illegal activity and ill thought out comments. The place to start has […]