My first memory of the Brits being called crap came from a particularly enthusiastic episode of Newsround. Dido scrambled up to the platform to collect her ten thousandth trophy of the night while some cheeky […]
Music News: Live At Leeds Announces More Acts
Everyone’s favourite local multi-venue musical event Live at Leeds has added even more exciting names to this year’s line up. This year’s festival will take place from Friday 3rd May – Monday 6th May, beginning […]
Style vs. Substance – How Do You Vote?
The campaign season has officially been launched and from society committees to the next student exec it’s time for us to get set for a bombardment of silly slogans, painful puns, stirring speeches, and, admittedly […]
The Fall of King Bibi?
Given the constant risk Israelis face of an election, you could forgive them for suffering of apathy. Despite this, in January 2013 the highest percentage of Israeli Jews this century voted, and with a […]
Iraq – A Retrospective
In the next couple of weeks, you will see a greater media focus on Iraq looking back at the fateful invasion in 2003 by UK and US-led coalition forces and how the country has changed. […]
All You Need is Science
BBC Three’s new programme The Year of Making Love, uses the influence of science in order to manipulate an experiment that seeks to create 500 couples. The show follows them throughout the course of a […]
Caught on Campus: Men’s Style
Last week Nina Keshmiri was hanging out on campus to catch the most stylish of men!
Comedy | House of Fun
4/5 stars Asserted as ‘the best comedy club in the North’, ‘House of Fun’ certainly didn’t fail to deliver. Having housed comedians such as Michael McIntyre, John Bishop and Russell Howard, ‘House of Fun’ continues […]
Film | Oscar Snubs
A certainty at the Academy Awards every year is that some films- whether audience favourites or critically acclaimed avant-garde cinema- will fail to land the nominations they were expecting or indeed worthy of. This year […]
Film | Controversy and the Oscars
The build-up to the Oscars is in full swing and the nominated films are being closely analysed in the press. As always this year controversial stories about the nominated films are being featured in the […]
Film | The Baftas: the aftermath
Sunday’s BAFTA awards celebrated, in true British style, the championing the underdog. Up against the blockbuster powerhouses of Lincoln, Les Miserables, and Django: Unchained, it was Ben Affleck’s Argo which undoubtedly came out on top. […]
Comedy | Mutant Milk
3/5 stars With a name as bizarre and beguiling as ‘Mutant Milk’ I was pretty sure that Leeds’ alternative student comedy night could not fail to be ‘alternative’. The few audience members who had managed […]