I’m running for Gryphon Editor for a multitude of reasons. Firstly, my background is in design, I currently study fashion marketing and so have developed a good sense of effective presentation. Layout and editing are […]
Safi Bugel: Why I Should Be Gryphon Editor
I want to be Editor-in-Chief of the Gryphon because I believe in the importance of print and student journalism. However, I also think there are big structural issues within the paper that need to be […]
Michael Keating: Why I Should Be Gryphon Editor
To me, the most important role of The Gryphon’s Editor-In-Chief to enabling others to share and contribute to the best of their potential. I began writing for The Gryphon shortly before the Christmas break in […]
Why I’m Voting for Lisa Nandy to Be The Next Labour Party Leader
The ballot for the Labour Leadership elections opens today (24th February) and I’m already certain about who I’m voting for. Unlike Lisa Nandy, none of the other candidates throughout their leadership campaigns have displayed the […]
Should The Elderly Lose The Vote?
Western countries are ageing. By 2050 25% of people in the UK will be aged 65 years and over, an increase from 20% in 2018. Additionally, older people have a higher turnout in elections compared […]
Editorial Letter: Being Somewhere in Between Binaries
Hooray, it is LGBTQ+ History Month. This is held every year up and down the country to recognise the history and progress that has been made for LGBTQ+ rights since the Stonewall Riots in 1969. It is celebrated around the world, in June in the US (when the Stonewall Riots occurred), and in February in the UK to mark the repeal of Section 28 in 2003 (more on that later).
Pensions Shouldn’t Be the Focus of Strikes
UCU has announced another wave of strikes this semester. The key issues – pay, equality, casualisation, and workloads – have not changed. Whilst the November strikes led to some concessions, the main demands have not […]
Students: Use Your Collective Agency
Thursday 20th of February will mark the first in fourteen days of strike action spread over four weeks taken by the country’s largest Higher-Education union, University and College Union (UCU). UCU will be calling on […]
Left-Wing Media “Left for Dust”
The Freedom of the Press was compromised last week when a group of journalists from news outlets such as The Daily Mirror, HuffPost, The Independent and the i newspaper were excluded from a Downing Street […]
Don’t Lock Up Terrorists… Deradicalise Them Instead
On Monday of last week Sudesh Amman appallingly stabbed two people in Streatham, South London before he was shot dead by the police. It was quickly announced to be a terrorist attack of an Islamic […]
Dr Rosena Allin-Khan MP: “Now Is One of The Hardest Times To Be A Student”
As we sit in the upstairs bar of The Pack Horse, after a lively, packed-out talk, I ask Rosena Allin-Khan if the pub is her natural habitat. “Well, it’s certainly one of them; I have […]
Parasite’s Best Picture win: Real change or merely symbolic?
‘The Oscars are not an international film festival. They’re very local’, Bong Joon-ho (now four-time Oscar-winner) told Vulture in October last year when asked what he thought of the exclusion of Korean films from nominations. […]