Paris backlash: a war of ignorance
Harriet King
When the Charlie Hebdo shootings happened earlier on this year, 26 mosques around France were subject to attacks by gunfire, grenades and pigs heads. Two weeks ago, a day after…
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R.I.P Movember
Samuel Jarrett
Wait, hold on! Is it the third week of November already? I guess Instagram must be glitched. Where have all the shameless excuses of mustaches gone? This absence of bum…
I didn’t change my Facebook profile to the French tricolore
Ida Akerstedt
As I was scrolling down my Facebook feed on Sunday I saw dozens of photos turned red, white and blue to show solidarity with France. After the terrible attacks in…
Are tampons really a luxury?
Luisa Barrientos
Tampons are a necessity for any female who has reached puberty. We cannot help getting our periods and we need the protection. So how is it that a necessity is…
Essena O’Neill: attention seeking teenager launches ironic anti social media campaign
The Australian Instagram model, Essena O’Neill, recently quit social media claiming it is a “contrived perfection made to get attention”. Her 600,000+ followers brought in an income of at least…
Our young impressionable minds can prove you wrong
Julia Canas-Martinez
Students are scared of a lot of things. All you have to do to see this is say the words “loans”, “graduate jobs”, and “employability” and I can guarantee that…
Scrapping the maintenance grants will “financially cripple” university students
Maria Delgado Gonçalves
Universities risk losing students who rely on maintenance grants as they call the decision between not pursuing education or borrowing up to £53,000 from the government “pathetic”. Kingston University students…
The world is negative enough without a Facebook dislike button
Tina Dahmen
Facebook has decided not to opt for the dislike button since it would “bring out too much negativity”, according to Mark Zuckerberg, its founder. Instead it will add six emojis…
KU Students are in an identity crisis, and they don’t even know it
Leigh Boobyer
It’s been over five months and four days since a long-winded General Election kept me questioning even my basic understanding of politics: “Why is Nick Clegg still running, he knows…
Are students too lazy to protest?
Over the past few weeks, students have been taking to the streets to do what students supposedly do best – protest. From large-scale protests like the Million Mask March which…