Why Love Is Better Off the Internet and Out of the Spotlight
You might want to think twice about posting about your relationship this Valentine's Day, writes Libby Blanchard. What will you be doing this Valentine's Day? Posting photos of the flowers your...
View ArticleFear of the Future
For the next four months, I will be completing my university degree. Then, from the end of May, for possibly the first time in my life, I have no idea what I'll be doing. I'm both excited and...
View ArticleOn the Importance of Independent Student Media
It was Guild election week at the University of Exeter this week. For many of us, this simply means a week of avoiding overly enthusiastic candidates dressed up in Onesies on campus. However, Guild...
View ArticleBy Learning About the Challenges That Girls Face, They Can Seek Change
Inequality for girls is a global problem. Across the world millions of girls are unable to go to school, access adequate healthcare or even choose who they want to marry and when to have children. The...
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Mars One Names Britons Short-Listed For One Way Trip To Red Planet
Five Britons have been shortlisted for a one-way trip to Mars as they hope to become the first humans to step foot on the Red Planet. Four women and a man from the UK are among the final 100 candidates...
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Palmers College Students Raise Over £200 in Aid of the London to Paris Walk
Left to right: Kieran Goodwin, Jaylan Ashton, Molly Lindsay and Lucy Jewell In preparations for the London to Paris Walk which is starting on the 28 March 2015, students at Palmers College in Grays...
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East Asian Pop Culture is Inspiring a New Generation of YouTubers and Their Fans
It's pretty fair to say that YouTube is one of the world's main sources of internetainment. (That's entertainment on the internet for the less lexically aware.) With more than one billion unique users...
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Mental Health Group Slams University For Horror Film-Esque Caricatures of...
Robort Gordon University, in Aberdeen, has been criticised by mental health campaigners for using Hollywood horror film-esque rubber masks to simulate mental health issues. The masks were used as part...
View ArticleThe Babadook - A Film About Life's Real Horros
Why does fear come from? If we accept the psychoanalytic stance of a 'continual return of the repressed', ghosts and demons offer a way to battle unconscious psychic constellations of horror that would...
View ArticleLife as a Left-Handed Person is Just Not Right
Bringing with it an increased risk of dyslexia, psychosis, hyperactivity and depression, life as a left-handed person is not quite right. Not only are lefties more susceptible to various mental...
View ArticleFinance Officer Stole £300,000 From Cambridge's Pembroke College, Which Is...
A former Cambridge University finance officer is facing a 10 year prison sentence after stealing £300,000 from under the nose of an ex-MI6 chief. Jacqueline Balaam falsified invoices during her...
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Save BBC 3 Campaign Submits Huge Petition On Deadline Day To Decide The...
Campaigners hoping to save BBC Three have delivered a petition with over 270,000 signatures to the corporation's headquarters, begging for the youth TV channel to be spared the axe. The BBC plans to...
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Jon Snow Takes Skunk And Says It's More Frightening Than Being In A War Zone
Channel 4 presenter Jon Snow inhaled skunk - the most potent form of cannabis - on camera for an experimental programme which will explore the effects of the drug and its less powerful sibling, hash....
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UCL Students To Open Free Pop Up Store For Homeless
A team of more than 50 student volunteers are launching a pop up street store to provide free clothes to the homeless, which will be a first for the capital. The Street Store, which is the brainchild...
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Vulnerable Youths Are Kicked Out Of Care Homes When They're 18. Here's Why...
At the moment, vulnerable teenagers are kicked out of care homes shortly after their 18th birthday, regardless of their emotional or mental wellbeing. Gemma, a 19-year-old from Yorkshire, who has been...
View ArticleIt's Time to Include 'I' in LGBT Discussions
As a male, it is hard for me to get what it's like to be a girl. Growing up, I would think of girls as weird and not get why they didn't have a willy too. Puberty happened. I figured out some of the...
View ArticleStudents Surging for Green
The 'Green Surge' has landed. The growth of the party now boasts a lead over the Liberal Democrats. The growth of the Young Greens this year has been particularly interesting, doubling in size since...
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Three Quarters Of Male Students 'Struggle To Believe Their Friends Have...
More than three quarters of male students struggle to believe their friends have mental health problems, while psychiatrists have raised concerns lad culture could be putting young men's health at...
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Labour's Ed Miliband Pledges 80,000 New Apprenticeships
Ed Miliband has promised voters the Labour Party, if elected, would create 80,000 high-quality apprenticeships for every school leaver who achieves the necessary grades. The opposition leader made the...
View ArticleCameron's FU to the Workless Youth Is Not What's Required
I happened to be watching an episode of the 90s British TV series House of Cards the other day (led there, admittedly, by the American re-make). In the episode, during a TV interview, hard line Tory...
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