Crouched over in a bus stop we find him, barely able to stand due to the pain of his leg. Someone set fire to his sleeping bag, he tells us, and the result is a […]
One Car Crash Too Many For Uber?
In the latest hit to business, last week, ride share giant Uber lost its license from Transport to London (TfL) which allows it to continue to operate in the capital. For the millions of Uber […]
Tenants Unite: Know Your Rights!
Anyone who’s ever rented as a student knows how stressful it can be. According to the National Student Accommodation Survey nearly 90% of students have had some form of issue with housing. High prices are […]
Will Putin Try to Steal Christmas?
In mid-November, Michael Schwirtz and Gaelle Borgia of the New York Times published a report on Russia’s efforts to install a President in Madagascar, who would be favourable to the Kremlin’s interests. Jam-packed with espionage, […]
Immigration Is An Asset to The UK
It goes without saying that immigration is the current hot topic in international discourse. An increasing political focus on immigration has allowed politicians like Donald Trump and Viktor Orban to use immigrants as scapegoats, painting […]
Disabled Students Can Feel Like A Ticked Box
My experience with the Leeds disability service has been a pleasant albeit brief, and slightly problematic encounter. I filled in my name, crossed the T’s, dotted the I’s and ran over the nature of my […]
Gibraltar Abortion Referendum: A Threat to Human Rights
Unknown to the United Kingdom’s mass media supervision, the British overseas territory of Gibraltar with its small population of 30,000 conceals one of the European Union’s harshest abortion laws and renunciation of human rights. The […]
Stand and Support UCU Strikers
Staff at the University of Leeds have gone on strike this week for the second time in eighteen months, resulting in yet more disruption to students. The unresolved row between Universities UK (UUK) and the […]
Editorial Letter: What is the Role of Student Media?
Hey readers, So we are now reaching the end of Semester One and the end of the 2010s. What a wild ride the last ten years have been. Way back in 2010, I was still […]
The UK Housing Crisis
The housing crisis is only going to get worse if the Conservative government continue their reign of astringency. The absence of thoughtful, long-term beneficial housing programmes is seriously affecting us all. A recent series was […]
Should University Students Be Compensated For Lecturer Strikes?
Should university students be compensated for lecturer strikes? Students at sixty universities are facing up eight days of industrial strike action over the coming weeks, between November 25th and December 4th 2019. Lecturers are striking […]
The Chilean Protests Won’t End Anytime Soon
It made a brief debut in the UK media at the start of last week but has since been mostly forgotten. You may find one of two articles from the BBC or the Guardian but […]