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War on drugs: Fabric reopens the debate

With new rules put in place, Fabric is due to reopen, and with it the age-long debate on drugs is back

Life after Fabric: What’s next for the future of British clubbing?

When it comes to clubbing and drug culture in post-Fabric Britain, many questions have been left without reply. Miranda Bunnis searches for answers

Al-Madina – The legend that stood firm

“Anticlimax can be a cruel mistress, if it can be called a mistress at all”

London to Paris Bike Ride 2017: Cross the Channel for Charity

Get involved, do something worthwhile, cycle from London to Paris for Breast Cancer Now

War on Drugs: Fabric Unravelled

Good riddance to the sordid halls of Fabric, hello pre-1960’s Britain

The Panama Papers: no surprises

With the revelations of tax avoidance on an industrial scale, Tristan Parsons writes that it is no surprise that the wealthy and powerful have been implicated

LSE accused of evicting a student with mental health difficulties

LSE faced questions as their Residential and Disability and Wellbeing Services were accused of ignoring the advice of NHS medical professionals and SU officers and of evicting a student with acute mental illness

LSE SU fails to elect General Secretary

The student body of the LSE SU have chosen to re-open nominations in the General Secretary election, marred by allegations of bullying and anti-semitism

All that glitters…

Sophie Soar gives her verdict on the best of this season’s London Fashion Week, noting a common magpie-like penchant for glitter, that we can expect for the season to come…

Preview: Capital One Cup Final. Manchester City vs Liverpool

City are off to Wembley again, to play Liverpool in the Capital One Cup Final. It looks like this could be a close one.

Preview: Chelsea vs. Manchester City

The FA Cup returns! Manchester City travel to London to play Chelsea in hopes of gaining form again, and going all the way to Wembley

Humanity, corporate success and fetishism in the restaurant industry

“The lobster roll may be the greatest sandwich ever conceived under the canopy of heaven”

UCL student strike action for rent cuts continues

Strikers are withholding more than a quarter of a million pounds in accommodation fees to pressure the university into cutting rents by 40 per cent

London rents only for wealthy international students

The chair of the London Housing Committee writes to Boris Johnson to request aid for struggling students due to crippling housing costs in the capital

Manchester has highest student-related crime rate outside London

Data shows how much higher the crime rate at London universities is, but places all four of Manchester’s universities at the top of the non-London list

Festival: British Summer Time

The Strokes roll out the hits whilst Blur perform a career spanning spet

Poppy Memorial attracts millions of visitors – why?

Beth Slatcher-Greenwood reflects on the unprecedented popularity of a memorial commemorating one hundred years since the outbreak of World War I

Spring trend report from High End to High Street

It’s hard to believe stepping out in Manchester on a freezing, gloomy day in January that Spring is around the corner. Yes, there is a light at the end of the interminable tunnel that is January and February. This bright spring light has already been shone on the catwalks of New York, London, Paris and […]

On your bike, if you dare

Charlotte Green discusses how the potential ban on using headphones whilst cycling is symptomatic of a system determined to blame bikers for accidents, not motorists

The Royal Opera House

Zoe Landau, tells us about her role as Student Ambassador for the venue and why she thinks there’s so much more to it than meets the eye.