We are all commodities. All of us. Our value is dictated by someone we have never met, and by people we do not know. We are all faceless, anonymous tools, to be used at will […]
Snooker prepares for the return of the Rocket
Jamie Kirby World Snooker Championships Upon hearing the news that Ronny ‘The Rocket’ O’Sullivan would be taking a long-term sabbatical from snooker in November, the revision timetables of many students began to look even more […]
Leeds end season with Stirling performance
26/04/2013 David Smith The Leeds Men’s 1st team was apprehensive ahead of their Premier League playoff against Stirling University – the top tennis university in the country. However, there were some positive aspects to […]
‘We’re Leeds United, we’re passing the ball!’
Kyle Hulme Leeds United Well, I had to start with that in the title or “He’s Brian McDermott, he looks like an egg”. Either way, both chants are examples of the wave of optimism that […]
Take Care, Danny boy
26/04/2013 Hugo Greenhalgh Sports Editor A sigh of relief echoed around Leeds on Thursday afternoon as it was announced that Danny Cipriani had been discharged from hospital after being hit by a bus in Leeds. […]
Leeds quash Scottish invasion
26/04/2013 Freddie Mickshik On a warm but windy day down at Weetwood, Leeds’ 1st XI took to the field for their season opener against a strong Scottish Universities side. The track was, as ever, hard […]
Perez pushes Jenson’s buttons
David Grant Bahrain GP Sebastian Vettel became the first multiple winner of the 2013 Formula One season in typically dominating fashion in the fourth race of an already enticing season. Sunday saw the German three-time […]
Paws for thought
Calum Gunning Lions 2013 The British and Irish Lions tours are always a magnificent spectacle and four years ago we were treated to three epic encounters between World Cup winners South Africa and a Lions […]
BTL: The Luis S**rez Saga
Joe Bookbinder In other news Luis S**rez proved the haters right once again as he re-enacted a scene from Jaws. Of course, there is nothing wrong with that, we’ve all been caught replaying scenes from […]
BTL: The Managerial Merry-Go-Round
Jack Arscott Between the Lines As the managerial corpses pile up, the Barclay’s Premier League shows no sign of slowing down. The days may be over when clubs would splurge silly money on languid Spanish […]
1 in 7 Hyde Park houses “unsecured”
As many as one in seven homes in Hyde Park and Woodhouse are left unlocked. Officers from the local Neighbourhood Policing Team inspected over 300 properties in the student area, in an effort to highlight […]
‘That’s what she said’: ‘lad culture’ on our campus
In March 2013 the NUS issued a report called ‘That’s what she said: women’s experiences of ‘lad culture’ in higher education’. Based on interviews with 40 female students, it was prompted by the NUS Hidden […]