Facebook deletes ‘maybe’ button
Nikita Jadav
Facebook has decided to scrap the ‘maybe’ button on event pages, angering commitment-phobes everywhere. Facebook has replaced the ‘maybe’ button with a new ‘interested’ button. The change of wording is…
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Are students too lazy to protest?
Julia Canas-Martinez
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…
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…
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
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…
GPA comment
Whilst some students work hard from the start, some students only do the bare minimum and focus their efforts into their final exams – because first year doesn’t really matter…