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 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 [...]
Reading the riots gives a fresh perspective
LEON NEAL/AFP/Getty Images August saw Britain experience some of the most serious social unrest since the riots of the 1980s. Media and political commentary during the three days of upheaval repeatedly highlighted the criminality and mindlessness of the hoodied thugs [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Iran isn’t another Iraq
For many years whispers of a war with Iran would occasionally appear in newspapers, but in the shadow of Iraq any military action would have been political suicide, not to mention stretching the armed forces close to breaking point. The [...]
Reading the riots gives a fresh perspective
LEON NEAL/AFP/Getty Images August saw Britain experience some of the most serious social unrest since the riots of the 1980s. Media and political commentary during the three days of upheaval repeatedly highlighted the criminality and mindlessness of the hoodied thugs [...]
Holly Thompson: The positive side of a vocational degree
On Tuesday 3rd February, ITV screened their take on the higher education debate: ‘The Value of a Degree: Tonight’. The programme showed several sixth-formers being interviewed on what they planned to study at university or college by a panel of [...]
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 [...]
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.