When 305 MPs voted to reject the Finance Bill amendment which would have brought about a negotiation between David Cameron and the EU over taxing VAT on tampons, you had to question if any of […]
Better Off Out Or In? With the 2017 Referendum Looming The Gryphon asks: Should Britain leave the EU?
Yes: The argument to leave the European Union is often lumped in with UKIP’s policies but, if you look beyond their xenophobic nonsense, then there are actually very compelling reasons to desire a Brexit. The […]
Why We Need a Holocaust Memorial Day
On Monday evening I proposed that LUU should officially recognise and support Holocaust Memorial Day, which was agreed by the panel. In the past couple of years, Leeds University students have been able to hear […]
Is Prime Minister’s Questions still relevant in British Politics?
Yes: […]
An Open Letter to George Lawlor: Why We Need Consent Classes
I started reading ‘Why I don’t need consent lessons’, published this week by the Warwick Tab, in the hope that it was sarcastically titled clickbait. Disappointingly, it was just as the title suggested, the most […]
Is Oscar Pistorius Still the Champion of Paralympic Sport?
Oscar Pistorius has changed the face of Paralympic sport, reaching a level of celebrity usually deemed unattainable for disabled athletes. His devastating descent has been extensively documented by the press with his trial broadcast on […]
What Is the Pope Apologising For?
It may seem as though Pope Francis continued his pseudo-liberal crusade earlier last week, when he issued an apology for recent ‘scandals’ in the Catholic church at his weekly audience in St. Peters Square. For […]
The Favouritism of White Actors in Non-White Roles
Joe Wright’s Pan – the prequel to the J.M. Barrie classic Peter Pan, has recently entered cinemas facing negative reviews from critics, with controversy over the casting. Rooney Mara’s portrayal of the Native American Tiger Lily has […]
Is it impossible to stop violence against women?
Last week saw the premier of the new film Suffragette, and with it, a protest by the anti-domestic violence group Sisters Uncut. Their protest was against the cuts to domestic violence support services by the […]
The Right to Bear Arms: A Devastating Addiction
The grave situation the United States faces is far more than a macho obsession with weapons. It goes beyond an obsession for personal safety. America faces a population with a tragic addiction to the feelings […]
Chris Brown was right to be denied entry to Australia
I’m not the biggest fan of Chris Brown, musically or otherwise, and so when the news came that he had been denied a visa and banned from entering Australia, it didn’t really change my life […]
The Volkswagon Emission Scandal
Over the past week it’s emerged that Volkswagon have been ‘cheating’ in their emission tests by making their cars appear far less polluting than they are. Volkswagon clearly see a different meaning to cheating than […]