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 […]
Living with cancer and the Teenage Cancer Trust
“The experience has changed my attitude. I’m more confident in joining in with things that are new and daunting” Charlotte Prince explores the work of the Teenage Cancer Trust, and talks to students balancing university […]
2. The Secret Rugby Player
08/02/2013 Hi, I’m the secret rugby player, and I am here to tell you that there is more to rugby than being ruggedly handsome and built like a brick s**thouse. Obviously us rugby […]
Review: Headingley Social 1st Birthday w/ Hannah Wants
Headingley Social 1st Birthday Hannah Wants Voodoo Bar Thursday 31st January With so much going on in Leeds every week and so many clubs to choose from, a social at a bar in Headingley might […]
Rhinos off to rampaging start
Nick Gandy Super League Leeds Rhinos 36-6 Hull FC 8/2/2013 Last Friday saw the opening match of the Leeds Rhinos season. They went against local boys Hull FC and although the match was tight […]