The Graduate: LSE meets Brixton
Heavens. Things really have kicked off this week. It’s a good time to be an ex-LSE student with an ambition to be a journalist, I tell you that. Every journalist I know has been up my arse asking how to [...]
The Graduate: Valentines Day
Last week brought to my attention the general amount of cynicism that an unmarried couple celebrating Valentine’s Day creates. One perfect example of this was written in LSE’s student newspaper The Beaver last week, where a philosophy student (who overcomplicates [...]
The Graduate: Such structure didn’t exist when I was a student
‘Monday, Tuesday Wednesday Thursday, Friday Saturday, Sunday….get get get get with us, you know what we say say, party every day day!’ Anyone who spent time on planet earth last summer will know that these are the lyrics to a [...]
The Graduate: Pregnancy and other Phobias
Yesterday I realised something. I realised that if I got pregnant, no one would care. I breathed a sigh of relief that at the age of 22 my name will never make headlines in Daily Mail for being ‘a young mum’ [...]
The Graduate: Christmas time
Christmas. Well that was an anticlimax wasn’t it? I hate January. It’s filled with depressing moments such as realizing you need to buy a tube of Canesten Duo in order to wear the skinny jeans you bought before you gorged [...]
The Graduate: Night out
This week I moved into a new house. Well it’s not really a new house, more like a house I lived in when I was student 2 years ago. Well not really that house, but one next door, the mirror [...]
The Graduate: Sex appeal
A working woman is sexy. Very sexy. She struts down the street, grasping her latte, her perk arse cheeks battling with one another beneath her tight pencil skirt, her breasts straining out of her buttoned shirt. She sits on the [...]
The Graduate: Advantages
Five issues in, I felt it would be appropriate to highlight some of the key changes that come about with graduation and ‘being a graduate’. I now feel that I am more settled in my graduate ways and in a [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Goldsmiths’ team kettle sends BBC boiling over
An attempt by Goldsmiths’ University Challenge team at making a political statement has been shut down by the BBC. The students had tried to use a large white kettle as their mascot at a studio recording on March 3rd in [...]
A student London fashion weekend
Every year in mid-February, London is taken over by designers, models, bloggers and fashionistas from all over the world to celebrate London Fashion Week at the beautiful Somerset House. The atmosphere is intoxicating: outside Somerset house is a thoroughfare of [...]
Video: LSE water balloon attack results in clashes
Amateur footage obtained by London Student captures some of the attack on the LSESU Palestine Society, which was holding a peaceful demonstration at the time. You can read the story in full here.
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
ULU Elections 2012: Three Minutes With…Ross Speer
An interview with vice-presidential candidate Ross Speer. 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.