When solidarity with Palestine goes too far
Bauke Schram
Apart from Kingston’s convenient location, Cheesy Fridays and the Christmas market, it is actually its international and multicultural image that makes me love this place and the university. Over the…
Comment and Opinion
Do we pay too much for our education?
Dawn Bonar
Being among the first group of students to pay around £9,000 a year for tuition, I was not surprised to see the Which? report stating that almost a third of…
Homophobia: beating up the whole community
‘But you don’t look like a lesbian. I would have never thought you were gay. Like, I’m totally fine with it, but I would not have guessed. Maybe you have…
The Zellweger effect: is she trying to erase her Norwegian roots?
Tone Bergheim
The Daily Mail ran a story on their website regarding the recent changes in Renee Zellweger’s appearance that have been the latest gossip surrounding the celebrity world. She appears to…
Halloween costumes: men vs women
As a young female in today’s society, I am constantly bombarded with pictures, opinions and thoughts on how I should look, dress, behave and present myself. I am told that…
“I can’t breathe,” US police and their culture of violence
‘These white men are dangerous,’ said chief Powhatan, Pocahontas’s father in the 1995 Disney adaption of the story of Pocahontas Powhatan. Almost ten years after the movie adaption and little…
Rape victims are not the sinners
Elizabeth Stromme
Let us place the shame of rape where it belongs – with the perpetrator and not the victim. As a girl, I was told “don’t get raped” before I even…
Nigel Farage and the mainstream British media: who needs who more?
Christian Eede
Much has been made over the last couple of weeks of a “political earthquake” following the win of Douglas Carswell, on behalf of UKIP, to represent the constituency of Clacton…
God Only Knows: What does the BBC’s star-studded clip tell us about its music initiative?
Anybody with the faintest grasp of popular culture or use of social media will likely know by now that last Tuesday the BBC interrupted the regular programming of almost their…
Gender, drugs, and statistics
A survey on drug usage among Kingston students conducted by The River revealed that the gender gap is much lower than the national survey findings. Experts were not surprised, since…