I was fourteen years old when the Brexit referendum took place. Like other pro-Europeans around the country, the result left me speechless. I admit that I was barely politically educated at the time and knew […]
This is the time for students to be heard and compensated
University students across the nation have been seriously impacted, disappointed and politically shafted over the past year. At the start of the academic year, many were told that, on a case-by-case basis, students whose quality […]
Impeachment at the door for Trump, again
With 232 votes in favour (including 10 Republicans voting yes), US President Donald Trump was impeached in the House of Representatives on 13th of January for having “engaged in insurrection”. The move to impeach comes […]
Will 2021 bring more doom and gloom?
On New Year’s Eve, we raised our glasses and drank a toast to the new year, reassuring ourselves that 2021 will hopefully be a step back to normality. However, our wishes have yet to be […]
The race against racism
Sir Lewis Hamilton – by far the standout name on the recently published New Year’s Honours list. Following his recent Sports Personality of the Year (SPOTY) award, the accolades are stacking up for the British […]
The UK reveals breakthrough Cancer developments amidst COVID-19
A new blood test that can detect up to 50 different types of cancer is due to be piloted across England next year. The trial is being conducted on 165,000 patients by the NHS in […]
Shut up by The Black-Eyed Peas
I gotta feeling everyone knows what I am talking about. The Leeds Student Group on Facebook exploded over the weekend and I’m sure the majority of people reading this know why. If you don’t, let […]
When brands tweet, it ruins my day
Someone somewhere in some boardroom thought it would be a good advertising strategy to have their brand tweet like a sixteen-year-old, and it ruins my day every time I see it. The reason behind my […]
Scotland ends period poverty: What does this mean for the UK?
Research has shown that 10% of girls in the UK have been unable to afford period products. It costs an average of £8 for sanitary products every month, a cost some women cannot afford. Forms […]
How is the pandemic being handled in France? A comparison
French native and international student in Leeds Marjolaine Marsille reviews how France have handled the pandemic in comparison to the UK.
We might have left the EU, but we have not left Europe
The start of 2021 saw the end of the UK’s membership of the European Union through legal formalisation of the Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s post-Brexit trade deal. What exactly has changed? What is the state […]
The day NASA killed all its monkeys
On 2nd February 2019, all twenty-seven monkey’s held by Nasa’s Ames research centre were put to death. Or, as NASA preferred to describe the act, humanely ‘euthanized’. According to documents released under freedom of Information […]