Chemical Brothers – Don’t Think
Don’t Think is an attempt from Adam Smith to capture the unique collision of the audio and visual elements that combine to form a Chemical Brother’s Show. It was filmed with over 20 cameras and is all done at [...]
Review: The Bee
The Bee is a strangely entrancing piece of Japanese theatre about the transformation of a businessman, Ido, who returns home from work one day to discover that his wife and son have been taken hostage by escaped murderous convict, Ogoro. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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.
ULU Election News: Latest figures indicate low turnout
The latest figures from the ULU elections suggest they are on course for a low overall turnout. As of 4.40pm today (Tuesday February 7), there have been 640 votes cast in the most popular election category. London Student understands this is [...]
Engineering Limpets
New research at Queen Mary has found that limpet teeth are extremely strong and resemble structures we use for building aircraft parts. Limpets use these impressive teeth to scrape their food source, algae, from tough rock surfaces. The teeth are [...]
60 Seconds with… Peter McOwan
Education Secretary Michael Gove recently announced a “dramatic” overhaul of the ICT curriculum, branding the current syllabus “demotivating and dull” and proposing new computer science lessons from this September. Professor Peter McOwan, a computer scientist at Queen Mary, told us [...]
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/electionsSOAS Radio to host World Radio Day event
Monday 13th February, 4-6pm in Room G2 SOAS, Russell Square To mark the inaugural Wold Radio Day SOAS RADIO will be hosting a panel discussion ‘New Perspectives on Traditional Radio.’ A variety of practitioners, academics and tools providers will discuss how this [...]
Is British membership of the EU is no longer viable?
Great minds think alike. In the very same week that six major European newspapers printed a joint feature exploring the benefits and drawbacks of the EU, New Turn held a fiery and impassioned debate with the motion: “British membership of [...]
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 [...]