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Lift the porn ban

Lift the porn ban

Amy Morris suggests the the University should start treating its students like adults with regards to internet regulations
Re-imagining climate change

Re-imagining climate change

Editor Jacklin Kwan looks at the history of how society has come to face an existential environmental threat at the hands of climate change. Could things have been different?
Bugs and B-movies: can polish spoil a game?

Bugs and B-movies: can polish spoil a game?

Bugs can make a game a classic, and can even be their own participatory entity of gameplay, writes Rob Pate
Let’s talk surgery

Let’s talk surgery

With lip fillers being marketed as cheap as a haircut, we examine the unregulated terrain that is the booming UK aesthetic surgery industry.
The Princess Diaries – Empowering or inspiring self-consciousness amongst women?

The Princess Diaries – Empowering or inspiring self-consciousness amongst women?

Countless films involve women receiving a make-over in order to be deemed attractive, but does this effect women’s self-consiousness?
Nigella Lawson: icon or innuendo?

Nigella Lawson: icon or innuendo?

Holly Ktorou asks whether Nigella Lawson is an culinary icon or simply an innuendo
Guys, look out for us girls

Guys, look out for us girls

Rona McCann explores unsettling phenomenons that women and girls face every day and why we should all being doing more to eradicate them
A defence of the cupcake feminist

A defence of the cupcake feminist

Helena Young writes in defence of the cupcake feminist: bake away, ladies.
Halloween looks: if you’ve got it, haunt it!

Halloween looks: if you’ve got it, haunt it!

Ruby Johnston takes to Instagram to shortlist our top 5 Halloween makeup looks for some serious creative inspiration. ‘Cause if you’ve got it, haunt it, honey!
Brexit from the other side

Brexit from the other side

Isidora Cortes-Monroy adds to the ever-growing discourse on the infamous Brexit with an international student’s perspective
Fallowfeels: (pod)casting off

Fallowfeels: (pod)casting off

Students Eva Gerretsen and Bea Bacon tell us about their podcast ‘Fallowfeels’ and the journey that led them to discuss their interests on a public platform.
Racial identity in Southeast Asia as a modern social construct

Racial identity in Southeast Asia as a modern social construct

Exploitative and divisive ideologies around race are a tool of power – just take a look at Southeast Asia
The theatre of debate – winning the war on political correctness

The theatre of debate – winning the war on political correctness

Reclaiming the space for intellectual, civilised debate
False intimacy in social media adverts

False intimacy in social media adverts

Are social media influencers exploiting the authenticity of their platform for profit?
Why was there no official LGBT+ bloc at Reclaim The Night?

Why was there no official LGBT+ bloc at Reclaim The Night?

Because the Student’s Union forgot about us
A new Italy: Europe’s problem

A new Italy: Europe’s problem

Another domino has fallen… will it topple a united Europe?
An ode to Antwerp

An ode to Antwerp

Why we should mourn the decline of UK nightlife
The marvel of the real Black Panthers

The marvel of the real Black Panthers

“I do not expect the media to create positive black male images” – Huey P. Newton, founder of the Black Panther Party
Carillion’s dirty papers

Carillion’s dirty papers

Parliament voted to release the government’s risk assessments of Carillion… and they are devastating
Angela Merkel: Die Überlebende (The Survivor)

Angela Merkel: Die Überlebende (The Survivor)

How the Queen of Europe rose to her throne