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Gay in the NBA: John Amaechi interview
If there’s one job in one country you’d particularly expect to be hostile to and uncomfortable with homosexuality, it’s professional sports in the USA. Before he came out, John Amaechi was probably best known for turning down a $17 million contract offer to play basketball for the Los Angeles Lakers, instead opting to remain with... »
The history of sexuality: a change is gonna come?
With four per cent of British therapists still offering ‘gay cures’, John Pollard tracks the history of ‘treatments’ for homosexuality and looks at mental health support for LBGT people today »
British universities: riding high?
Emily Henderson explores the recent World University rankings, and the state of the UK’s higher education system. The numbers have been crunched and the university world rankings released by the Times last week, for the 6th year running. After a series of tumbles last year, British universities bounded back, claiming four of the top six... »
Black History in London
MULTICULTURALISM is what makes London the great city it is. So, to celebrate Black History Month John Benstead and Emily Henderson have embarked on a mission to take you through London to some of the most exciting, interesting and saddening places that Afro-Caribbean history and culture can be found. Brixton market, Deptford, Notting Hill Carnival:... »
BHM Special: The Fallacy of the ‘Black Threat’
NUS Black Students Committee member Symeon Brown embarks on an historical exploration of the UK Black Student Movement, dispels the perception of a ‘Black Threat’; and asks if a fear of Black student self identity and organisation on university campuses has limited the dynamism and activity of black student activism. 1975 was a year of... »
Is this living the high life?
Coked-up celebrities and city boys with pink ‘lollipop’ faces, Harriet Southgate delves into the lives of those rich enough to afford the good stuff and the impoverished students playing it ‘safe’ with herbal highs. Nights out on vodka Red Bull and cheap rosé are becoming a thing of the past. People want real class nowadays,... »
The sugar daddy scholarship
Some call it the perfect ‘arrangement’; others see it as a form of prostitution. Either way, Victoria Buxton notes, the ‘Sugar Daddy’ relationship is becoming increasingly common, like it or not. Students have never had to deal with more debt when deciding to go to university than now. Upon graduating, London students are likely to... »
International students in London
Over 100,000 students come to the UK from overseas to study every year. Yi Han Goh explores the London university experience through the eyes of an international student. It’s your first day at university, and you’ve decided to get there extra early, suitcases (and flustered parents) in tow, so you can get a headstart on... »
The hidden prevelance of mental illness
Budgeting, living away from home, studying: student life can be filled with anxiety. Emmajo Read uncovers the stigma and the volume of mental illness among students and offers a host of helpful resources. A new term, a new start, a new challenge but, for many first-time and returning students this year will bring with it... »
Ain’t no Black in the Union Jack?
Hilary Aked spoke with LSE’s Professor Paul Gilroy – cultural scholar, race commentator, and social theorist – about the impact of top-up fees, the idea of “British culture”, pressure on Black intellectuals. LS: You’ve said that “The burden of the black intellectual was to feel that you had to know about everything, and that burden... »
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