Greate Debate issue 8: Yes: UCL atheists were right to publish the prophet
The issue of the “Jesus and Mo” web cartoon, currently reproduced by the UCL Atheist, Humanist and Secularist society’s facebook page, is a contemporary example of our fear to question alternative opinions. It would appear that attempts by Richard Dawkins, [...]
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 [...]
The US needs to look after its own
In 1967, photographer Al Clayton made a tour of the Mississippi Delta region of the US and captured images that shocked: young children standing by empty fridges, clearly suffering from malnutrition; dilapidated homes where families lived in cramped, unsanitary conditions [...]
Diversity or equality?
Diversity is the theme for February month on UCL. As a student of anthropology, originally from Denmark and with previous work co-operations with a advocacy organization for homo-, bi- and transsexuals, I can help but finding the theme interesting and [...]
Iran: is the Islamic Republic really the enemy?
Even thinking completely rationally, we are onthe brink of something pretty dangerous. As the Obama administration looks back on its predecessor’s mistakes (as well as its own) it can see it has achieved fundamental instability in Western Asia. US Foreign [...]
Anti-Semitism: still dangerous, still here
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 [...]
Gove’s education reforms: the ten-year experiment we can’t afford to try
Michael Gove has been both praised and reviled for the speed, audacity and extent of his education reforms. As he admits this week that it will take ten years to judge the results, it is worth considering whether his reforms [...]
Great debate issue 8: Were the UCL atheists right to publish the prophet? No side
The UCL Atheist Society claim to be the bastion of rational thought and open debate, and yet the use of an image depicting the Prophets Muhammad and Jesus having a drink in a pub to advertise a social was entirely [...]
The US needs to look after its own
In 1967, photographer Al Clayton made a tour of the Mississippi Delta region of the US and captured images that shocked: young children standing by empty fridges, clearly suffering from malnutrition; dilapidated homes where families lived in cramped, unsanitary conditions [...]
London Loves Issue 10
I’m sat editing London Loves in a bedroom that smells of urine. And no, I’m not visiting my great grandmother in a NHS care home. In fact, I’m sat in my own bedroom minutes away from my University campus after [...]
ULU Elections 2012: Three Minutes With…Abs Hassanali
An interview with vice-presidential candidate Abs Hassanali. Click the ‘TV’ tab above to view videos for the other candidates. You can also see their manifestos at www.ulu.co.uk/elections
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.