Dear Graduates
The real world is hard. I could try to be nicer about this, but that's the truth of it at the end of the day. I've only been in it for about a month at this point (a month travelling after finishing...
View ArticleTen Things I Thought I'd Know By The Time I Was 20
I think 20 is that age that really makes you realise you're an adult. 18, sure, you're legal, you can go out, clubbing, drinking... in the UK anyway. But at 18, you're still excused for, like "oh,...
View ArticleThe Underground Whipped Cream Dealers: Why The Government's Ban On Deadly...
Following the death of 18 year-old Ally Calvert on Saturday, new questions are being asked about the availability of Nitrous Oxide, more commonly known as Laughing Gas. The gas has been related to the...
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Terminal Cancer Might Be Taking My Mum's Body, But It Will Never Take My Mum
A few weeks ago, I was pottering around York, as I often do. I went into a gift-type shop (there are loads of them in York - you know the type I mean). I was looking for something specific , so was...
View ArticleStand Aside, Let the Refugees In!
It's a disgrace! Thousands and thousands of migrants are trying to get in to our country illegally, and Mr. Cameron and the British government are doing absolutely nothing about it. Thousands of them,...
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Debt Warning As University Tuition Fees Tipped To Rise To £10,000 A Year
Tuition fees at some universities could reach £10,000 a year by 2020, it has been suggested.A new study, by the Independent Commission on Fees, warns that the Government should be “extremely wary” of...
View ArticleThe Amazing Way Cardiff Is Using Cricket to Hit Inequality for Six
It's something that white people seem to find very difficult to get their head around: a system can be prejudice towards non-white people, without any single person within that system being consciously...
View ArticleA Message for My Friends
Mental health problems can be so very isolating at times. Last week I was a bit of a social butterfly, catching up with three friends who I've not seen in far too long. Some days it's tricky, there...
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Concern Over Statins Advice
*Jerry Lee [2013] received an MPhil in Epidemiology as a Gates Cambridge Scholar and is now a second year medical student at Duke University. He is currently funded by the American Heart Association...
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Magic Beans
We were sitting inside the staffroom of a school about twenty minutes away from the Rosie May Home. Spending my mornings here, I had been preparing them, and myself, for the influx of volunteers I...
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An Astounding Defeat for Public Health
*Jerry Lee [2013] received an MPhil in Epidemiology as a Gates Cambridge Scholar and is now a second year medical student at Duke University. He is currently funded by the American Heart Association...
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Labour's Supporter Witch-Hunt
You may have seen the utter panic expressed by the Labour Party in recent days at the rate of registered supporter sign-ups. You would have thought that Labour MPs might have been pleased to have...
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Why Young People Should Travel
I am writing this piece in a rental car as I leave the Grand Canyon National Park for a night in Death Valley, having travelled Europe for three weeks a few days prior and Cambodia the previous summer....
View ArticleHow Do You Get Over Your Creative Block?
I've sat down to write this a thousand times. At least in my head I have. For the past few months I have been struggling with, for want of a better expression, writer's block. I have been drowning in...
View ArticleHeavy Social Media Use Linked With Mental Health Issues In Teens
Most members of Generation Z can't imagine life without Facebook, Snapchat, Instagram and Twitter. Nearly one in four teens reports being online "almost constantly," with much of that online time...
View ArticleThere Is Nothing Sociable About My Media
"The man in front of me at the ALDI checkout tried to bag his items as they were scanned, quite clearly an amateur". This is just one of my many Facebook statuses that I ponder, produce and publish for...
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Young Driver Launches Petition To Have Driving Lessons Included On School...
A petition has been launched asking the government to "save lives" by introducing driving lessons and road safety into the school curriculum. The petition was started by the Young Driver organisation,...
View Article#MyUselessResumeSkills Shows Pointless Traits We All Have But Can't Put On A CV
We all have a few totally useless "skills" that we can't really put on our CVs. The little things we pick up throughout life that have no real-world application whatsoever. Some would even be useful...
View ArticleStudents, Academics and Professional Staff Need to Stand Together to End Lad...
On Monday, NUS launched a report examining lad culture in UK universities an issue we've been looking with growing concern for some time. Since the launch of Hidden Marks in 2010 (a study of women...
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Newcastle Teen Liam Lyburd Found Guilty Of Planning Mass Murder At His Former...
A 19-year-old from Newcastle has been convicted of planning a mass murder at his former college, who he blamed for his "miserable life". Following a trial at Newcastle Crown Court, Liam Lyburd was...
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