Given the difficulties, current Prime Minister Theresa May is having getting her Brexit bill through Parliament and a failed coup led by Jacob Rees-Mogg, talk of her successor is more rampant than ever. However, rumours are […]
UK Business Leaders Call For Second Vote on Brexit
Over 70 UK senior executives and business leaders have signed a letter calling for a second vote on Brexit. Signatories include James Daunt, the chief executive of Waterstones and Sir Mike Rake, former chair of […]
British Academics Fear for Losses to Science Funding Following Brexit
Since 2014, the UK has received €4.6bn from the EU’s Horizon 2020 science programme. A large portion of this money has come from research programmes exclusive to EU member states, including the European Research […]
Budget 2018: What Does it Mean for Students?
This week has seen the beginning of sub-zero temperatures, ice-covered streets and Arctic winds battering Leeds students. If that wasn’t chilly enough, the government have revealed their budget for the year, mapping out how they […]
Leeds Students Take to London’s Streets to Campaign for a People’s Vote
On the 20th of October, Leeds students boarded coaches at 6am to head down to London. A sea of people greeted us as we exited the coaches at Hyde Park tube station, the point from […]
Imperial College London Plans Dual-Nationality Partnership Post-Brexit
Imperial College London has signed a flagship partnership with the Technical University of Munich, according to the BBC. UK universities are worried about the impact Brexit might have on their ability to receive research funding […]
Brexit Means Remain? The Thousands Marching for a ‘People’s Vote’
Love it or hate it, Brexit is everywhere. Arguably the most defining political issue of our time, it is impossible to escape. The People’s vote campaign is seeking a referendum on the final Brexit deal, […]
Brexit: An Outsider’s Point of View
The morning of Friday 24th of June 2016 was a rather surprising one for Germany. The newspapers had declared that the British voted in the majority for Leave. The surprise resonated into the evening with […]
“I’m Not Calling for Another Referendum”: Leeds Student Media Societies Interview Jeremy Corbyn
LSR, LSTV and The Gryphon sat down with Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn to discuss Brexit, anti-semitism and higher education ahead of his talk to politics students at the University of Leeds. Jeremy Corbyn […]
The Threat to the EU No One Talks About: Poland’s Authoritarianism
Established in 1951 as the European Coal and Steel Community, which created a common economic area in coal and steel, the Union-to-be was foreseen by many political leaders and philosophers as the everlasting post-war political […]
Will the UK Go Out of Fashion Post-Brexit?
Type in ‘Brexit’ to Google News and you get 78,000,000 results. That’s over 5 times more than news coverage on the NHS and around 78 times more results than the gender pay gap. Perhaps for […]
Why are we still asking the question, Deal or No Deal?
Jacob Rees-Mogg recently claimed that the British economy would receive a ‘£80 billion boost’ if we were to leave the European Union without a deal, instead of trading under World Trade Organisation rules. This is […]