Find Your Backbone, Labour!
Labour are up a creek without a paddle, following yet another General Election defeat. As the party faces internal turmoil, they host a fascinating leadership debate that will see the party go one of...
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Five Ways to Fight for the Climate This Summer
In countries such as Malawi (pictured) increasingly erratic weather is triggering more storms and droughts. Credit: Christian Aid/Nicky Milne There's a chance the term 'climate change' might just be...
View Article#FieldWorkFail Hashtag Tells The Hilarious Stories From When Science Goes Wrong
For scientists, students and academics, field work is part of the job. However, it doesn't always go as planned, as apparent in the brilliant and hilarious #FieldWorkFail hashtag on Twitter, where...
View ArticleHow Marketing Graduates Aaron Dicks And Tom Craig Built A £500,000 In Two Years
When Tom Craig and Aaron Dicks graduated Leeds University, they didn’t have the financial or experiential capital to start their own business, so they did something that most would-be entrepreneurs...
View Article6 Arguments People Make Against Immigration (Despite Evidence To The Contrary)
Immigrants - am I right? Everybody wants to have their coffee made for them in less than thirty seconds - yes, with chocolate - but nobody wants to stick up for our bilingual brethren. Let's face...
View ArticleSchool's Out and Not Just for Summer
School's out. It's the summer holidays. And as the last registers of the year were taken, classroom doors closed and bells fell silent, a flag continued to flutter from the front of our school, Dame...
View ArticleShould Working Class Students Avoid University Altogether?
For the past few decades, teachers at state schools up and down the country have been pushing for their brightest pupils to attend university, telling them that it's the passport to a successful life....
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Teen, Jessica Byrnes-Laird, Attacked With Brass Pipe For Wearing A Bikini...
Strangers have raised thousands of pounds for a girl beaten with a brass poll just for wearing a bikini. The horrific moment Jessica Byrnes-Laird was attacked by a group of men who were catcalling her...
View ArticleAmidst the Monotony Corbyn Gives Us Something New
Politics has been pretty disappointing in the last few years. With things like the decision to go to war in Iraq, the expenses scandal, and the Liberal Democrats going back on their tuition fee pledge,...
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When Is A-Level Results Day? Information And Advice For Parents On Dealing...
A-level results are released on Thursday 13 August 2015 and it can be a stressful day for both students and parents. Teenagers can feel as if their future depends on the grades printed on that paper,...
View ArticleThe Best Of The Brilliant #IfAnythingSchoolTaughtMe Hashtag
If there's anything that school taught us, it's that school teaches you a lot of mathematic equations that you'll have no use for in your life. Of course, you learn heaps of other stuff too......
View ArticleThe 'Blairite' Badge Is Now an Unwanted Label and It Shouldn't Be
It was clear from Tony Blair's recent intervention in the Labour leadership contest that the former Prime Minister is not held in high regard in this country. He is lambasted for taking Britain into...
View ArticleYou Might Not Agree With Burnham's Reasons for Abstaining - But at Least Try...
A couple of weeks ago, leadership contender Andy Burnham infamously abstained on the welfare bill vote - even after suggesting that he personally opposed it. And, to say the least, everyone was pretty...
View Article9 Under-30s Working To Save Our Planet
The environment is constantly in the news; whether it's government policy, the merits of solar power or countries banning supermarket waste, it's never far from public discussion. However how...
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Students Are Paying Big Fees, They Have The Right To Be Protected From Rape,...
Universities have a duty to protect their female students from rape, particularly as they are paying such high fees, an MP has said. Nicola Blackwood, chair of the House of Commons' science and...
View ArticleMilifandom Creator Abby Tomlinson Mercilessly Trolled On Twitter For Having...
Abby Tomlinson, the Labour activist credited with creating the hashtag cult #Milifandom during the general election campaign, is being mercilessly trolled on Twitter apparently just for having an...
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Which Bag Should You Buy For University? Take Topman's Test To Find Out
A bag can say a lot about your style and personality, so whether you're starting as a fresher or returning for another year of university, make sure you get it right. Luckily, Topman has put together a...
View ArticleThe New Maths Exam In Scotland Was More Difficult Than Intended, SQA Exam...
The new Higher maths exam sat by pupils in Scotland this year was "more demanding than intended", the Scottish Qualifications Authority (SQA) has said.Almost 143,000 students are receiving their exam...
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Nottingham Street Gets A Pot Noodle Vending Machine. Students Go Wild
If you were deliberating which university to apply for, then this may have just clinched the deal; Nottingham has just seen a pot noodle vending machine installed on one of its city streets. The...
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Finding Peace
One of my favourite places to go and visit is the local graveyard. We live on a square block, the streets conveniently named North, East, South and West, and the cemetery is on the North side of the...
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