White men worst drug users at KU, say dealers
Matt Perry
Anonymous drug dealers who study at Kingston have told The River that their products are most likely to be bought by white middle-class males.The students, who find time between lectures…
Week 6 Love Island roundup: babies, declarations of love and meeting the family
Megan Robinson
The final week of love island has been and gone, and we have only got one show until we have to face our boring, mundane lives again. What could possibly…
Nicholas Cage’s Color Out Of Space needs pigment of imagination
Catherine F Poole
“Do you know how much those animals cost us? They are alpacas! Alpacas!” It’s a line you would never expect to hear in a film that essentially is about a…
Greed or Green: It was too hopeful of Greed to expect laughs at the expense of underpaid workers and refugees
2/5 Stars Greed had so much potential; a promising storyline, a fantastic cast and many celebrity cameos. But much like the fast-fashion the film is based on, it fell apart…
River Exclusive: author feels for those who struggle with friendship at university
Chloe L Wright
In a River exclusive, the author of the highly successful novel, The Roommates, said she feels for students who do not get along with their flatmates at university.
Ozzy Osbourne – Ordinary Man album review: The Prince of Darkness shows there’s still life in the later stages of existence
5/5 Stars Despite now being 71, diagnosed with Parkinson’s, and being a man who has had more lives than a cat on crack, Ozzy Osbourne has just released the greatest…
New budget for New Slang – Banquet Records to invest 6 figure sum in Pryzm
Banquet Records plan to invest a six-figure sum into Pryzm’s regular New Slang event and are calling for input into what the money should be spent on.
The Brit Awards at 40: 8 iconic moments
The Brit Awards are celebrating 40 years of being on TV, and we have seen some legendary moments in music over the past four decades. From controversial rants to awful…
Kingston University records 53 acts of violence by students since 2016
Steph Spyropoulou
Kingston University has disciplined at least 53 students who committed acts of physical violence against other students or university staff since 2016. There was a total of 22 acts of…
Lack of black senior academics in UK “unacceptable”, says universities minister
The universities minister has slammed the lack of senior black academics in UK universities as “unacceptable”. Chris Skidmore made the comments after new figures from the Higher Education Statistics Agency…