Interview: Sophie Thompson on She Stoops to Conquer
Sophie Thompson is just one of those utterly brilliant British actresses who pops up everywhere from Harry Potter to Eastenders and now in the National Theatre’s new production of She Stoops to Conquer. We meet in a special audio recording [...]
Science of…New Year’s Resolutions!
It’s a new year, a new start, and for many Londoners it’s time for a New Year’s resolution. Thousands across the city have taken the pledge to lose weight and get healthy. London Student spoke to Miguel Alonso Alonso, Instructor [...]
Royal Institution of Great Britain Christmas Lectures 2011 Review
Theatre tickets: £30/£20 junior; Library tickets: £6/£4 junior; BBC Four, December 27, 28, 29: free! Feast your eyes and ears on this year’s Ri Christmas Lecture series entitled Meet Your Brain, aired on BBC Four and recorded in front of [...]
POLARBEAR INTERVIEW: Play speaks to Internationally renowned spoken word artist Polarbear about his new show, Old Me
POLARBEAR INTERVIEW Play speaks to Internationally renowned spoken word artist Polarbear about his new show, Old Me This is Polarbear’s third full length performance piece – following RETURN- A Spoken Screenplay, and If I cover my nose you can’t see [...]
Review: Bridges and Balloons
Bridges and Balloons is a cheerful, inventive comedy from interdisciplinary theatre collective Imaginary Friends. Set in the claustrophobic world of a student house, it shines a light on the bonds linking the political and the personal in modern British society. [...]
The Internet Strikes Back
The 18th January 2012 saw the Internet rise up and rear its head in an unprecedented show of force, with online giants such as Google, Wikipedia and Reddit leading a massive campaign against SOPA and PIPA – the planned anti-piracy [...]
David Cameron’s visit to Saudi Arabia: Reflections
With Saudi investment in the United Kingdom totalling approximately £62 billion, it does not take a genius to understand why David Cameron wishes to cement a firm relationship with King Abdullah and Prince Nayif. Although I do feel that his [...]
Response: NUS and Anti-Apartheid by James Haywood
This article is a response to James Haywood’s article published in issue 7 Even by the standards of those who support the BDS, and call on the National Union of Students and others to support it, this article seems to [...]
Want a progressive future? Let Scotland break away
For a Scot living in London, it’s been an interesting week. The power play between David Cameron and Alex Salmond has been at times amusing, often irritating, but always fascinating. Doubt is the debate’s defining feature. No one can decide [...]
Twittering Recession Depression Aggressive Obsession
“Internet craze plays on fascination with banking culture” is the tagline to Financial Times’ recent about @GSElevator, the anonymous Twitter account that taps into the unruly world of banter in the Goldman Sachs Elevator. What’s going on? Anyone’s moral compass [...]
We need a new anticapitalist left
You know capitalism is in trouble when people start to talk about ‘capitalism’. Thanks in no small part to the global #Occupy movement there is a growing public discussion about the capitalist system. A new generation are starting to fundamentally [...]
Anti-Semitism: still insidious, still dangerous and still around on our campuses
As students across the country prepared to return to study earlier this year, one graduate was being schooled by the French courts. The British fashion designer John Galliano was given a suspended fine for two incidents of racist and anti-semitic [...]
Interview with The Manic Shine
The Manic Shine are a hot upcoming band. The band’s leader, Ozzie Rogers, hails from the LSE but has chosen the music industry, rather than finance, as his chosen career path.
The second sabbatical interview: an excerpt
In their second interview with London Student, Clare Solomon, ULU President, and Viktoria Szmolar, ULU Vice-President, discuss the current state of the student movement. This excerpt focuses on the momentum of student protest after the Christmas break.
Breaking: ULU election candidates announced
A provisional list of candidates for the 2012 ULU elections has been announced. They are: PRESIDENT Sean Rillo Raczka - Currently ULU Vice President Re-Open Nominations (RON) VICE PRESIDENT Daniel Lemberger Cooper - Royal Holloway, University of London Ross Speer - Queen Mary, [...]
Nazi drinking game results in brawl
A Jewish student at LSE has suffered a broken nose after a Nazi-themed drinking game on an Athletics Union (AU) trip led to a brawl. According to a report in The Beaver, the ski trip to Val D’isere saw students [...]
Prisoners of Conscience
Fifty years ago, two Portuguese students held their glasses aloft and toasted to freedom. Their act of defiance was met with a punishment no less draconian than is to be expected from an authoritarian regime like António de Oliveira Salazar’s [...]
Interview with The Manic Shine
The Manic Shine are a hot upcoming band. The band’s leader, Ozzie Rogers, hails from the LSE but has chosen the music industry, rather than finance, as his chosen career path.Comedy Ticket Competition – Frank Skinner, Chris Ramsey and Chris Addison
Courtesy of Avalon, London Student has nine sets of tickets to give away, all for London dates. In anticipation of their upcoming London gigs, London Student has tickets for Frank Skinner, Chris Ramsey and Chris Addison to give away. Frank [...]
London Comedy Film Festival – A Preview
The weekend of January 26-29 will see the London Comedy Film Festival, in partnership with the BFI, host a full five days of events, with a special preview of the upcoming Muppets film on Friday 27 taking top billing. The festival, [...]
“Goldman Sachs rule the world” – Alessio Rastani at ULU
City trader Alessio Rastani sparked intense debate when his declaration on BBC News that “Goldman Sachs rule the world” went viral. At ULU last week, he – along with a panel of 3 others – debated that declaration. Victoria Waldersee [...]
It’s not journalism, but maybe it’s not evil either?
I recently had my first taste of the dark side of science writing: advertorials. I got to write a longish article for the purposes of what Insight publishers call ‘research dissemination.’ The idea is that a researcher who wants extra [...]
Self-healing plastic?
Nature has always inspired scientists to delve into unusual phenomena, and explore opportunities to produce new technologies. A recent study, carried out by researchers at the University of Illinois, was inspired by biological systems, and led to an emerging strategy [...]
Has Jonnie lost his marbles?
An interview with the comedian and ex-Royal Holloway student who threw a foam pie at Rupert Murdoch. The comedy begins early with Jonnie Marbles, as he puts a small espresso cup under the nozzle of the coffee machine and watches [...]