By Alex Gabriel  Alex Bramham, who just cancelled his campaign to be president of LGBTQsoc, complained in this paper that liberationist ‘equality militants’ control the group. I have to tell him: it’s news to us. Having come up to Wadham a year after me, he describes a society where ‘language is policed to a[n] Orwellian [...]
Rebecca Temerario compares her experiences on both sides of the Atlantic…….  While the system of higher education in the United Kingdom is accommodating to individualism, this does not mean that the American system needn’t be. I attend Sarah Lawrence College, near New York City, which enrolls about 1,000 students each year. Sarah Lawrence doesn’t have any [...]
By Heather Stevens On 2nd May, scientists at Rothamsted Research in Hertfordshire released a letter and video appealing to the consciences of environmental activists planning to physically destroy their research in a protest – described on their website as “a nice day out in the country, with picnics, music from Seize the Day and a decontamination” - set to go ahead next Sunday. In [...]
Propostion: Politicians must be held to a higher ethical standardby Adam Tyndall Be honest, you love the tabloids. You care more about Cameron texting like your mum than his message admitting “Miliband’s got me on the run”. The notion that the Leveson Inquiry will raise the tone of our public debate is worthy of only one response: LOL. So what will it change? [...]
By Dom Gilchrist and Sakina Haider The rise of New Labour was noticed by all but recorded by few. Fortunately, through the little red notebooks he used to capture his time as an MP, Mullin has preserved one of the most important periods in the Labour Party’s history establishing himself as the turn of the century’s most important diarist in the process. His [...]
By James Restall John Lennon once said, “Time you enjoy wasting, was not time wasted.” The snowed-under finalist may welldisagree, but let’s not forget that university students are the ultimate professional procrastinators. Since its 2005 launch, YouTube has provided essay-writers with the perfect vehicle for distraction. Be it an irate dog-walker cursing his pet as it hurtles towards a stampede of deer, a clip [...]
By Shozab Raza Last Thursday, up to 400,000 public sector workers staged a day of strikes in protest of the UK government’s austerity programme. What was unusual was that 20,000 off-duty police officers also marched in the capital that day, albeit in a separate demonstration. Organized by the Police Federation of England & Wales, the [...]
By Chris Barry Francois Hollande’s recent victory in the French presidential elections represents a welcome shift to the left in the balance of European politics. It has indeed been a very long time – thirty-one years – since the last election of a socialist French president. This fact, coupled with Hollande’s insistence that his victory represents a new, collective will to break with the [...]
By Meredith Kerr “I’d rather be governed by a madman than a thief”, commented an angry citizen on an article praising Hitler by the leader of Golden Dawn. On 6th May, the Greek general election gave no party an outright majority, but it has given 21 seats to a far-right group that Sophia Ignatidou, writing in the Guardian, said “a decade ago was widely [...]
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