The Gryphon’s Associate Editor, Dominic Johnson, sat down with Hilary Benn, Member of Parliament for Leeds Central, to discuss Trump, Brexit, and the state of the Labour Party. Sacked as Shadow Foreign Secretary in June […]
The Labour Dilemma: LLS Chair on why we must not forget the centre left
Joshua had been a keen Labour supporter for most of his life and has this year taken up the position of Chair for the Leeds Labour society. He’s worked in Washington and Parliament, and campaigned […]
Protests against Syria airstrikes takes place in Leeds
A demonstration took place on Saturday as an act of protest against Labour politician Hilary Benn’s support for extending airstrikes to Syria. The question as to whether Britain should bomb Syria was raised after the […]
The Big Picture: Syria Vote
What happened? The UK has extended airstrikes to Syria after the House of Commons passed a government motion authorising action against Islamic State in Syria by 397 to 223. It was a comfortable win for […]
In The Spotlight: Leeds Labour Students
This Week, The Gryphon interviews Leeds Labour Student’s External Canvassing Coordinator, Liron Velleman, to find out more about what the society has to offer. Leeds Labour Students has a long history of bringing together Labour-supporting […]
‘Jeremy had a stonking great victory and now it’s up to the rest of us to support him, and that’s exactly what I intend to do.’
The Gryphon speak to Labour MP and Shadow Foreign Secretary Hilary Benn about Jeremy Corbyn, the future of Syria and the government’s new PREVENT laws. Since The Gryphon last spoke to you quite a […]
“Let’s be Happy, Let’s be Hopeful, Above all let’s be Optimistic”
Newly elected Labour Party leader, Jeremy Corbyn, visited the University on Thursday to speak to students about the Party’s voter registration campaign, as well as conducting a brief question and answer session with the 500 […]
Corbyn’s Cabinet: Putting Mental Health on the Political Agenda
Time and again, mental health is seemingly forgotten about in Westminster. The stories of patients being sent out-of-area to access vital treatment, the cuts to the number of inpatient mental health beds, and U-turns on […]
Rudi Abdallah on Jeremy Corbyn
When Jeremy Corbyn acquired the thirty five nominations necessary to make it on to the ballot paper for Labour’s leadership race, I was naively ecstatic. Here was a man with the grizzled facial hair all […]