Dear Cupid…Heart-Adorned Valentine’s Items Please!
February 14th Faux Pas
Love is in the air…’least for some it is. It’s that time of year again and Valentine’s Day is just around the corner. (Cue the single ladies’ sighs and Beyoncé on repeat). Let’s face it, […]
Legally High
Colombia is considering decriminalising Ecstasy as a way of aiding its ongoing war on drugs. This week Big Debate asks, should the UK decriminalise drugs to gain control over its drug culture? NO: Melissa […]
Single Girl Style Icons
Valentine’s Day blues? Here are our single girl style icons….
Member of hiking society dies on Cairngorms
Update: Updated article here. A member of Leeds University Union’s Hiking Society has died during a hike on the Cairngorms in Scotland. Five other society members from the same party have been airlifted to safety […]
France’s Fight Against Gay Marriage is a Fight Against it’s Roots
It’s 1789 in Paris, ‘Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité’ is chanted from the rooftops, as François-Marie Arouet Voltaire, and Pierre Bayle lead their contempories against all odds in the hope of these Enlightenment ideals of freedom, equality […]
Citizens, Not Subjects!
“I say Charles don’t you ever crave, To appear on the front of The Daily Mail Dressed in your mother’s bridal veil?” (The Queen Is Dead- The Smiths) If you were to ask […]
A Plague on the Earth?
“We are a plague on the Earth”. Not the words of an angsty teenager bemoaning the state of humanity, but of David Attenborough: broadcaster, naturalist, and national treasure. Attenborough is a well-known and passionate proponent […]
TV: Utopia
In the midst of a winter war of ratings Channel 4 has thrown a grenade amidst the hoard of unimaginative bile suffocating our viewing with Utopia. Josh Taylor runs from television bakery into […]
Books: New Review: Meme Wars – The Creative Destruction of Neoclassical Economics by Kalle Lasn
Meme Wars is a book I was originally eager to lay into. The title alone made me scoff with a sceptical self-consciousness. It looked like a lame, hyped-up, hipster -manifesto: a book for […]
Leeds Student meets Matthew Todd, Editor of Attitude magazine
For the first in our series of interviews celebrating LGBT History Month, Lucas Scherdel spoke to the Editor of the UK’s largest gay publication about the equal marriage bill, religion and homophobia. On 5 February, […]
Soc of the Week 08.02.13: Her Campus
President: Rosanna Pound-Woods Membership: £8/year Contact: rosannapoundwoods@hercampus.com Twitter: @HerCampusLeeds Website: www.hercampus.com/leeds Her Campus Leeds is an online community for university and college women around the United States and the UK, started by undergraduates at Harvard […]