Having Climbed Out of My Dark Hole, I Want to Help Others Do the Same
"School days are the best days of your life". Let me tell you, mine were not. Going to school was my personal hell that I couldn't escape from. I felt trapped, like I was living in a dark hole with no...
View ArticleYoung Gay Men Are Let Down By the Education System
I was diagnosed with HIV at the age of 18, I remember it like it was yesterday. Being called forward by the doctor, being sat down (already trembling) and then hit with the news. Nothing could have...
View ArticleNow We Have Westminster on Our Side, We Really Can Stop Taxing Periods - Period!
Think your essential items are bought tax-free? Think again. Tampons, sanitary pads and mooncups have all been subject to a "non-essential, luxury" tax since 1973. Meanwhile, more 'vital' items such as...
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General Election 2015: More Than 1 In 8 Young People Have Already Decided Not...
More than one in eight young people have already decided they will either not bother to vote on May 7 or spoil their ballot, according to a poll. Research by uSurv for the Press Association also found...
View ArticleNumber Of Unemployed Black And Ethnic Minority Youths Increased By 50% During...
The number of black and ethnic minority youngsters out of work for longer than a year has increased by almost 50% since the coalition came to power, according to new figures. Labour said the official...
View ArticleInequality and Climate Change Will Define My Generation
Owen Jones, in his otherwise excellent book 'The Establishment', talks of the 'Overton Window', a phrase first coined by hard-right Republicans that refers to that which is deemed as 'politically...
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Social Media and the Feminist Brand
When allied with activism, social media can be extremely powerful. Facebook waved their white flag after the week-long campaign led by Women, Action and the Media, the Everyday Sexism Project and the...
View ArticleWe Are All In This Together: Networks of Solidarity as Resistance in the...
David Cameron said a while back that "we are all in this together". He was talking about austerity. And he was lying. Despite his attempts to be like that teacher you had at school who was "down with...
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REVIEW: Screwdriver - Channel 4
Russell T Davies, creator of 90s cult series Queer As Folk, has written three separate but interconnected TV series - Cucumber, Banana, Tofu - which aired on Channel 4, E4 and 4OD earlier this year....
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A Young Woman's Experience With Sexual Orientation and Mental Checklists
Almost every time I meet a new person I'm forced to watch as their brow furrows and an expression of both shock and confusion washes over them after I tell them that the beautiful woman standing next...
View ArticleWe Would Rather Believe Jihadi John Was Always Evil
By its very composition, the term "radicalised" accepts a past tense. A past where such a person was not radical, where he or she was normal. Despite this, all hell broke loose when Asim Qureishi, a...
View ArticleStudents Find Dead Body While Viewing Rental House In Brighton
Prospective tenants at a student house in Brighton were forced to call the police after finding a corpse in the bedroom of the flat they were viewing. Officers were called to Vere Road at around 1pm on...
View ArticleThoughts and Feelings as a First-Time Voter
This year I will be a first time voter, and, in all honesty, I don't feel remotely qualified. Politics is a lot of work to keep up with when you're also trying to pass your A-levels, and the lack of...
View ArticleThree Tests for the Tuition Fee Cut
Ed Miliband has faced down internal and external criticism for his proposal to cut undergraduate tuition fees. Now we need a funding formula which also pays for postgraduates and research. Miliband's...
View ArticleTeens Viciously Beat Girl Up In McDonalds, New York, As Crowd Cheers In...
Warning: readers may find the content of this video extremely upsetting. Disturbing footage of a group of young females beating up a schoolgirl in a McDonalds in Brooklyn, New York, as a baying crowd...
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#UnderageAndGay: Channel 4 Documentary Reveals The Dark Side Of Coming Out As...
"I've had phone calls from people saying they're going to murder me," says 15-year-old Beckham, as he explains the extent of the homophobic bullying he has been subjected to since he came out as gay....
View ArticleYoung People 'Paid Greatest Price' From Economic Crash
Young people in their twenties and thirties have been hit hardest by the economic downturn, according to a new academic report. While wealth grew for households aged over 65 between 2007 and 2012,...
View ArticleStudents Aren't Shocked by Road Deaths in Mile End Anymore - They're Doing...
Yesterday, two incidents in East London left at least one man dead. Students at Queen Mary, University of London were left disgusted and horrified but not shocked. Why? Because our university is...
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Translating Africa's Tech Enthusiasm Into an Enterprise Ecosystem
*Marlen de la Chaux [2013] is doing a PhD in Management Studies at the University of Cambridge with the support of a Gates Cambridge Scholarship. Technology is disseminating across Africa and...
View ArticleApril, or Xiaoyi? --A Discussion on Names and Culture
"ZZzz...z-i-ao Yeee?" "Here. Please call me April." And here we go again. Admittedly, my given name is difficult for Westerners to pronounce. While most Chinese names are badly pronounced in terms of...
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