Students at University College London will vote on the future of university’s affiliation with the NUS. Voting began on 18th October and will run until the 25th. The National Union of Students, has more...
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Were you actually expecting your exams to be marked this year?
Widespread strikes now seem inevitable after academics’ pensions disappeared – so what can us students do? When you go to university there are certain expectations – things that you know will probably happen regardless of what else goes...
Joe Cox
Puppies aren’t enough: UCL needs to fund proper mental health services
October 10th, World Mental Health Day. A day that is suppose to be dedicated to tackling the mental health crisis in our society. Instead, UCL Student Support and Wellbeing (SSW) have brought in therapy dogs to allow students to pet them to help...
Justine Canady
Londoners need Uber
On the 22nd of September, Sadiq Khan announced the controversial decision that Transport for London (TfL) would not renew Uber’s ride-hailing license within London. This would mean that no longer could you use the trusty app to order a taxi to you...
Michele Theil
Here’s what you should understand about ableism
I’ve been disabled all of my life, and I’ve never known anything different. I think I’ve got a pretty good grasp on what ableism is – I’ve certainly encountered it enough. But my view isn’t definitive, so don’t use me as a way of telling your...
Louise LeeFeatures
Married in a lecture theatre: Iran’s mass student weddings
Header image courtesy of Mehr News. Five hundred young couples, hand in hand, sit next to each other in the amphitheater of Tehran University. Girls are wearing white Chadors (a symbolic sign for a bride), colorful loose scarves and make up. Next to...
Flipping the lens: the refugee journey photographed from a new angle
Amy Lineham is a UCL medical student, photographer, and activist – of a kind. At the start of this year, she spent six weeks in France volunteering in refugee camps in Calais and then Paris’s newly opened Port de la Chapelle camp where the...
Did Malia Bouattia launch a viral fake news story?
If, over the last few days, you’ve heard that 72% of 18-25s voted, then you’re not alone. That statistic, which points hopefully to a revival among youth turnout, has been shared by publications and journalists including LBC, The Metro...
Emma YeomansPodcast: Why are young people so left-wing and globalist?
The second episode of London Student’s bi-weekly podcast gears us up for the general election by looking at our voting habits and asking: why are young people so prone to voting for left-wing, globalist parties? Becky reckons young people are...
Podcast episode 1: Tactical voting and youth turnout
London Student launches its first podcast, a weekly round-up of student news and views covering topics from major political events to NUS memes. This week, the London Student team (Charlie Lawrence-Jones, Rebecca Pinnington, Cale Tilford, Emma...
Review
Sleep Well Beast – The National: ‘artistic flare and dark humour’
Sleep Well Beast is an album for the autumn. In a startling return to form since their sixth album Trouble Will Find Me in 2013, Matt Berninger and co. have once again brought together their feelings of loneliness, mid-life blues, marital problems...
Henry Throp
Eamonn Lynch-BowersLondon Film Festival – The Shape of Water: ‘a 50s fever dream’
With The Shape of Water, Guillermo del Toro goes all-out to create his most confident work yet: an affecting, sumptuous 1950s-set romance combined with a B-movie creature feature. Sally Hawkins stars as Elisa, a cleaner working in a top-secret...
James Witherspoon
London Film Festival – The Killing of a Sacred Deer: ‘daring and distressing’
Yorgos Lanthimos’ arty horror meta-whatsit is unsettling and hilarious in equal measure, blending the bizarre strengths of Dogtooth and The Lobster to create something unique and utterly compelling. Colin Farrell stars as Dr. Stephen Murphy, a...