What Ridley Scott's 'Exodus' Says About the Film and Television Industry
On a trip to the cinema a few days ago, I first saw the trailer for Ridley Scott's new film, Exodus: Gods and Kings. Set in the times of the Old Testament, Exodus depicts Moses leading the Israelites...
View ArticlePrivately Educated Teens More Likely To Want To Go To Uni Than State School...
Privately educated teenagers are more likely to want to go to university than those who went to state school, research has found. And boys are significantly less likely to plan to study for a degree...
View ArticleStudents Living In Fear After Two Rapes In Fallowfield, Manchester
Students are scared to walk home alone after two females were raped in the same area in Manchester, as councillors warn residents to stick together. Police are investigating whether two incidents in...
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Pregnant Woman Sticks It To Anti-Abortion Protesters
A video has been posted online of a heavily pregnant woman absolutely sticking it to anti-abortion protesters. She deserves a massive thank you and a high five from women everywhere! What a hero! This...
View ArticleFeminism and Pubic Hair: Don't Purge the Verge
In Tajikistan it's considered a thing of beauty to have one's eyebrows fuse in courageous rendezvous above the bridge of one's nose. Locally the monobrow is more a creature of myth, a shadow of the...
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Your Six-Step Party Season Pre-Tox Plan
December is in full swing, which means party season is upon us. Cue late nights, boozy shenanigans and that seasonal 'fitness amnesia' that seems to strike without fail year on year. But not this time;...
View ArticleRage Against the Police State
Wednesday 3 November 2014 was declared a 'nationwide day of action', seeing campuses from across the country taking part in demonstrations calling for the government to scrap tuition fees in favour of...
View ArticleEveryone Is Always One Step Behind - and It Is Actually a Good Thing
We're always one step behind --- this is what I learned in college. We're a bunch of kids thrown into an environment of free will; we have short attention spans and little patience within our hearts....
View Article18 Things You Learn As A City University MA Journalism Student
From eight hours a week at undergraduate level to eight hours a day at City University, the transition from BA to MA can be a bit of a shock. Yet after only a couple of weeks of interviewing,...
View ArticleLet's Do Something About Mental Health at Universities
Recently, I wrote a post about my experience with stigma when applying for a position as a camp counsellor at Camp Canada, a branch of AmeriCamp in their neighbouring country. I was overwhelmed with...
View ArticleWhy I'm Glad That 'Girl Online' Was Ghostwritten
It's so easy to spread hate. To sit behind your laptop at home and write something mean. I have a YouTube channel, and I woke up to an anonymous commenter the other day telling me I should "stop...
View ArticleThe National Union of Students Condemns ISIS
At the last National Union of Students (NUS) National Executive Council (NEC) meeting on Wednesday 3 December 2014 in Liverpool, the NEC voted unanimously in favour of the motion 'Kurdish Solidarity'...
View ArticleThe 'Race Card' Is Not a Privilege
Recently I've noticed an overwhelming increase in the use of statements such as 'here we go the race card again' and 'you can't just use the race card'. Sadly you're wrong, and I will continue to talk...
View ArticleHow To Cope With Your Cold Student House During The Winter
It's a truth universally acknowledged that a student house gets cold in the winter. Turning the heating on for only an hour in the morning and an hour in the evening to save money will do nothing to...
View Article10 Must-See Places in South America That Won't Cost You The Earth
South America, the home of steak, salt-flats and really late suppers, is brimming with bucket-list ideas. From Iguazu Falls to the Amazonian jungle, it's no surprise that the continent can be found on...
View ArticleOur Favourite Out Of The Blue Oxford Uni Acapella Choir Is Back For Christmas...
We thanked our lucky Christmas stars when we saw our favourite all-male acapella choir Out of the Blue had released another song, and it was none other than Mariah Carey's All I Want For Christmas. The...
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'Skint' Vs 'Posh People' - Inequality and the Great Class Divide
With 'Posh People' - based on the readership of Tatler magazine - on one channel and 'Skint' on another, it's probably time to address the growing inequality and the huge class divide. 'Posh people'...
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Moving Forward After Ferguson and Staten Island
*Adam Cowden [2014] is doing an MPhil in Planning, Growth and Regeneration. Picture credit: Debra Sweet and Flickr. Licensed by Creative Commons. For Americans, the 2014 holiday season has not gotten...
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Rosie Stephenson: The Woman Who Wrote Over Three Thousand Articles on Wikipedia
On June 4, 2007, Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight was reading a book at her son's apartment in San Francisco, California, U.S.A. Halfway through the reading, she decided to find out more about the publisher...
View ArticleRacing Against Time
In a not-so-crazy plot twist, the semester is over! Ok, I guess that's not really a plot twist, it was always going to end. But what I can't get over right now is how quickly it's gone. People always...
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