With the multiple allegations currently surrounding Harvey Weinstein, Arts Writer Lucy Carr examines the culture of sexual assault within Hollywood. As more stories emerge every day, the world is left to watch in horror as […]
#MeToo
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Following the allegations surrounding Harvey Weinstein, the hashtag ‘MeToo’ has taken over Twitter feeds worldwide, with thousands of victims of sexual harassment and sexual assault coming forward to show how prevalent the issue really […]
The Undateables: Helpful or Harmful?
BAFTA nominated TV programme ‘The Undateables’, which follows a different group of disabled singletons each week on their journey for love, has returned to Channel 4 for its seventh series. The popular reality show has […]
Misinterpretation, or Deliberately Condescending?
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Louis Theroux: Dark States – Trafficking Sex
In the second of his compelling yet grim series, Theroux focuses on Houston, the number one hub for human trafficking in North America. We see Louis travelling around the city, investigating the women that work […]
In Conversation with Caryl Phillips: ‘It’s not the first asshole that America has elected as president, but it’s definitely the biggest one’
When I first met Caryl Phillips, it was at an event for the David Oluwale Memorial Association in February 2016 hosted by the School of English. The writer, as he has constantly since moving there […]
‘Turtles All The Way Down’ by John Green
Everyone has heard of the number 1 bestselling author of The Fault in Our Stars. Sophia read John Green’s newest novel Turtles All The Way Down revealing whether Green has the potential to take young […]
Society Spotlight: LUU Water Aid
When it comes to speaking about the importance of access to clean, safe water, the issue seems so far away that it is often dismissed. Here in the UK, most of us take for granted […]
The Apprentice: Stupidity at its Finest
Lumbering on into its thirteenth series, you can’t help but wonder why Lord Sugar hasn’t packed it in and retired. Yet he still chooses to subject himself to stupidity, chaos and bad planning, all packaged […]
Louis Theroux: Dark States – Heroin Town
Louis gets us Theroux the week with another gripping documentary exploring a town that has been ravaged by a heroin epidemic. “It’s kind of like a stick of dynamite that’s going to do absolutely nothing […]
Our Favourite Childhood Books Worth a Second Read
At this point in the year, everyone is back into the habit of course readings and academic journals, so we’re all in need of a reminder of what reading felt like when it was a […]
Welcome to ‘Trash Isles’: a Plastic Heap the size of France
The name, ‘The Trash Isles’, has recently been circling around social media after entertainment company LADbible ran a feature claiming ‘the world’s first country made entirely of trash’. The company have begun a campaign to […]