The campaign against Tequila UK is misguided and futile. Stopping the spread of rape culture will not come from closing either the club or the weekly event it holds but from sensible engagement with the […]
Comment | Russell Brand for prime minister?
Russell Brand is sexist, obnoxious and annoying. But he might just be right about why we are so politically apathetic. The ideas which gushed forth during that interview with Paxman on Newsnight last week, assumedly from the […]
Comment | Bake takes the cake
Last Wednesday morning I found myself hunched over my bag, blocking my ears in the middle of Leeds Student Medical Practice. Was I nervously awaiting the results of a chlamydia test or some other form […]
Comment | Why we need grammar schools
British education is failing. Our schools are failing our students and the future prosperity of the UK hangs in the balance. Figures from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) have rated England’s 16-24 year-olds as being 22nd […]
Comment | Support the teacher's strike!
This Halloween, staff from the University and Colleges Union (UCU,) Unite and Unison took industrial action against higher education campuses across the country. The strike came as part of an ongoing dispute with University management that […]
Comment | Merkel's Euro woes
Angela Merkel’s resounding victory in the recent German election has signaled that South European austerity matched by northern bailouts will still be the rason d’être of Eurozone crisis management. The economic crisis has been publicised […]
Comment | Wine, pizza and shutdown
The U.S Government shutdown, dubbed the ‘horrifying circus’, was last week brought to a close, which meant thousands of civil servants could finally return to work. The conflicts of the past month are, for now, […]
Comment | Can us plebs really trust the police?
It’s been difficult to avoid talk of ‘Plebgate’, a scandal from last year involving Andrew Mitchell MP and three Downing Street police officers. With the media being so willing to attack MPs at every turn, […]
Comment | The role of women in politics
For attractive women in politics, a certain level of scrutiny is always expected. Politics do not always come first when the press is only interested in your wardrobe and you are trying to be heard […]
Comment | Hard Working Families
The slogan ‘For Hardworking People’ loomed over the smug head of David Cameron at the Conservative Party conference back in September, where he unveiled a number of policies designed, he claimed, to help ‘hard working […]
Comment | Paving the Way for Postgrads
You don’t have to look far to see the problems that come with staying on at university after graduation. Last week, Leeds Student ran a feature exploring the many hurdles students have to jump over […]
Comment | Bands in the Hands of the Fans
Last week saw the fifth birthday of the popular music streaming service Spotify. This half-decade has seen radical changes in how we access music, with pay monthly streaming sites now becoming more favourable than downloading […]