‘No one is actually dead until the ripples they cause in the world fade away’ Yesterday, Sir Terry Pratchett passed away naturally, surrounded by his family and cat, at the tragically early age of sixty six. […]
Civilization: Beyond Earth a Pandora’s Box of opportunities
You’ve just engaged Ghandi in an all-out nuclear war and your frail empire is in tatters, you decide that the only way to win the game is to funnel all your resources into sending man […]
TV | Is it time The Simpsons left our screens?
On December 17th 1989, The Simpsons first aired. Margaret Thatcher was still Prime Minister and the Berlin Wall had fallen only a few weeks earlier – the world was a different place. Weathering comments from […]
TV | Doctor Who – A new face for an old classic
The world’s longest running, sci-fi show returns for its record breaking fifty-first year with a statement of intent. Peter Capaldi picks up the keys to TARDIS as he steps back in time to the perennial […]
TV | Siblings
BBC3’s newest sitcom offering, Siblings, is an interesting premise marred by its stock execution and detestable characters. Charlotte Ritchie, fresh from another hit sitcom, stars as hopeless office worker and Yorkshire university graduate, Hannah, who […]
Features | Inside Dungeons & Dragons
Dungeons & Dragons is one of the most successful role-playing games of all time but also one of the most misunderstood. Typically derided as the realm of shut-ins and losers but counting the likes of […]
Travel | An (ex) Boy Scout’s guide to Summer Camping
Camping is a cheap and ‘fun’ way to get away this summer. But spending the weekend in a muddy field can feel like you’ve gone on holiday by mistake. LSi’s own (ex) Boy Scout is […]
Food | National Chip Week – History of the chip
In an attempt to raise moral and invoke the spirit of the Blitz in these Tube-Strike-Flood-addled times, the National Potato Council of England has declared that the last week as National Chip Week. LSi offers […]
Features | Five of the best alternative moments in British history
For most people their studies of British history at school began at 1066 and ended in 1945 with Churchill flipping V signs in Trafalgar Square, but now Michael Gove wants to change that with his […]
News | Union selects University Challenge team
The Union has announced the brain boxes that will represent Leeds in the next series of University Challenge. Frank Jackman, Sam Arfield, Ben Maybee and Caroline Avery beat off competition from nearly 100 other students […]
TV | The Day of the Doctor – 50 years of Doctor Who
Life can be only understood by looking backwards; but it can only be lived forwards. In that lies the central conceit of The Day of the Doctor. Beneath its Saturday night tea time family viewing […]
Video Games | The Jane Austen games we've all been waiting for
It is a truth universally acknowledged that video games based on the works of Jane Austen are like buses – you wait forever for one and then two just turn up at once. Stride and Prejudice is […]