Every School Should Have Someone To Lead Its Career Education
Since 2011 career education and guidance has been under attack in England. Politicians like Michael Gove have argued that there was no need for any kind of professional support for young people's...
View ArticleThe Promise of the Women of Kobane
A few years back, a cartoon was doing its rounds on social media. It shows a White woman in a skimpy bikini and a Muslim woman in a full burka, each thinking that the other is oppressed. Both are...
View ArticleHow I Overcame the Anger Eating Away at All the Good Stuff in My Life
Bad news doesn't always make you sad. Sometimes it makes you angry. That's what happened to me, and my anger started to eat away at all the good stuff in my life. I was only 11 when I first found out I...
View ArticleWatch The Moment A PETA Protester Storms Crufts Show
The moment a protester stormed the world-famous dogs Crufts to campaign against pedigree dogs breeding practices has been caught on film. Animal rights activist and Leeds student Luke Steele...
View ArticleHow Do You Beat Bullies? By Finding Your Place in the World
I know how it feels to be bullied. It feels lonely. Bullies made me feel like I wasn't safe at school, like I didn't belong, so I used to walk for hours trying to shake off the feelings of loneliness....
View ArticleHaving 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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