Are You Being Persecuted?
This past week the governor of Indiana passed legislation that effectively allows gay men and women to be rejected by businesses due to their sexuality in the name of protecting 'religious freedom'....
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Changing Down: A Top Gear Fan's Goodbye to Jeremy Clarkson
Let's set one thing straight: Jeremy Clarkson had it coming. No one put a gun to his head and made him berate and assault Top Gear producer Oisin Tymon, just months after being told explicitly by the...
View ArticleSia and Her Faceless Revolution
Sia's brand is not just a gimmick, but something new and creative which makes us reflect upon the media we consume. Turn on any music channel, before or after the watershed, and you'll inevitably meet...
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UCL Lecturer Pietro Boselli Is Also A Top Male Model
In a strange and unusual turn of events, a man who has two jobs so he can make enough money to live, while happening to also be aesthetically gifted, has made the news. Pietro Boselli happens to be a...
View ArticleAn Open Letter to Militants in Africa
Dear Militants, You have killed hundreds of thousands of friends and family, perhaps we didn't know them personally, but they were like us. People who worked hard to make a living, who were loved by...
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Stop Telling Students Their Languages Degrees Are Useless
Please don't tell me how much my degree is worth. If you're being awkward, it is actually worth somewhere between £28,350 and £36,000 (I'm too afraid to do an actual run of the numbers), which is...
View ArticleNo Wonder Young People Aren't Engaged With This Election Campaign
On Thursday, Ed Miliband and David Cameron went head to, well, tail, in the non-debate that was the culmination of an embarrassing and undignified months-long battle between the Conservatives and the...
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Malaysian Fishmonger Who Murdered British Medical Students Aidan Brunger,...
A fishmonger has been sentenced to death for murdering two "exceptional young" British medical students who had been working in a Malaysian hospital. Newcastle University students Aidan Brunger, from...
View ArticleWhy Young Carers Desperately Need More Support
Young carers need to be given more support in school and college to help them fulfil their potential, according to a teachers' union. Around half (51%) of education staff say there is a young person in...
View ArticleYoung People Waiting More Than Three Years For Mental Health Help
Youths with mental health problems are being forced to wait for more than three years for help in a "creaking" system which cannot cope with the rise in referrals. The shocking statistics, revealed by...
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These Students From George Mason University Figured How To Put Fire Out With...
A pair of engineering students have figured out how to extinguish fire using sound waves. Mind-bogglingly awesome, right? The talented duo Viet Tran, 28, and Seth Robertson, 23, from George Mason...
View ArticleSussex University Students Vote To Boycott Israeli Goods On Campus
Students at Sussex University have voted to boycott Israeli goods on their campus following the violent conflict in Gaza last summer. The decision means any shops and restaurants commercially connected...
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One In Five Teens Has Tried An E-Cigarette
A new study has revealed shocking trends among young people, with many getting hooked on what researchers call "alcopops of the nicotine world". The Liverpool John Moores scientists surveyed 16,193...
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Over Two Dozen UK Students' Unions Backed BDS
The growth in Palestinian activism in the last few months has been encouraging. Starting from September 2014, the Students' Unions at Essex University, Goldsmiths College, Birkbeck University, Kingston...
View ArticleGuidance for the Naive Undergraduate - Part Eleven: Love and Relationships V.2
Now, I am no Casanova but I know that dating is something which holds quite the prevalence in student life, the fact that I hadn't ever really been on a date until reasonably recently is of course,...
View ArticlePale, Stale, Male: Why Getting Grime Legend Wiley Commemorated by Our...
If you know Wiley as 'that bloke who sang Rolex' or because Ed Sheeran featured on his track a few years ago, then you're in need of some education. And that's exactly the point a group of Queen Mary...
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What Is a Normal 22 Year Old, Zayn?
It's near a week since that fateful day. Zayn Malik leaves One Direction to be "a normal 22-year-old". To the millions of devoted fans, this was literal death. They'd wake up in the morning, in their...
View ArticleFreedom of Movement Is the Main Road to Knowledge
Even in the digital age, knowledge happens because people with common interests can easily work alongside each other, wherever they come from. This open society is under attack amidst calls to leave...
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Who Should I Vote For In General Election 2015: 10 Tools To Help You Decide
Amid all the name-calling, the battles with campaign buses and the awkward gaffes, it's easy to forget that who you vote for in the General Election 2015 should be based on an informed knowledge of a...
View ArticleWhy I'm in Politics at 18 and Why You Should Be Too
I'm Lewis Campbell, I'm the Scottish Green Party candidate for the Dunfermline and West Fife constituency and I'm 18 years old. Why am I in politics? The question should be: why isn't everybody?...
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