‘Wild’
Ida Salamonsen
Rating: 4/5 stars The cinema cringes. A screaming Reese Witherspoon has just pulled off a bloodied toe nail in the opening scene of Wild and thrown her shoes off a…
January 26, 2015
Kingston student to run 2015 miles in 2015 for homeless charity
Fran Warburton
A Kingston student has promised to run five-and-a-half miles every day for a year in order to raise thousands of pounds for homeless charity Shelter. Chris Else, a second year…
‘Inherent Vice’
Bart Williams
Rating: 4.5/5 stars 1970. The 60s have met their end, leaving in their wake an eclectic crowd of Californian hippies desperately trying to stoke the last burning embers of free…
Kingston student becomes Harlequins mascot
Anthony Waterworth
Harley the Bear entertains 15,000 rugby fans every weekend by dancing, playing games, taking pictures, and joking with the players. Little does anyone know he is actually a criminology and…
Ed Davey hints at Lib Dem leadership aspirations
Christopher Jutting
Kingston and Surbiton MP Ed Davey has hinted at aspirations to lead the Liberal Democrats after Nick Clegg steps down. In a radio interview he said that he had thought…
Miliband’s mission on behalf of young people
Eline Rilda
Ed Miliband is on a ‘national mission’ to ensure that students who have “fallen off” the electoral registration roll can vote in the upcoming general election. In a speech at…
Fortnightly bin scheme provokes anger among Lib Dems and residents
MP Ed Davey has described Kingston Council’s new recycling scheme as “nonsense”, and said it would lead to an overflow of recyclables. This month the council ruled that Kingston residents…
Kingston lecturer’s work named ‘Best Building of 2014’
Samuel Millen-Cramer
Head of Architecture at Kingston University, Daniel Rosbottom has had his work in Norway named ‘Best Building of 2014’ by Architects Journal (AJ). The building, designed by DRDH Architects where…
Kingston’s male basket ball team beat Westminster and avoid relegation
Tonje Odegard
Kingston women’s volleyball team could not play their match after a mix up of fixtures, but Cougars’ second basketball team secured their first win of the season against Westminster to…
How to: get involved with politics for young people
Bauke Schram
A tweet saying: “My sister won’t vote because Harry Potter is on the TV” during the 2014 local elections went viral last year as it is symbolic for people our…