SOAS has agreed to bring all its core support workers in-house by September 2018, the school announced on Friday in an e-mail sent to all its students. The announcement has brought forward by 12 months...
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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...
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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...
Mélenchon’s Irresponsible Silence
Ex French Presidential hopeful Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s failure to endorse Marcon is irresponsible and disempowers the very supporter base he seeks to represent. As official campaigning for the second round of the French Presidential elections...
Hannah Delahunty
Everybody you’ll meet at NUS Conference
Conference, we are appalled… The apolitical SU lover “Don’t you think SUs are amazing?” they ask you. You’re at the NUS conference. Of course you’re a fan of student unions. “No but, like, just so so amazing?” Yes. You agree. You just want to...
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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...
Podcast: 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...
When life stops: depression and university
When you start university, the expectation is that you will blossom into a stereotypical social butterfly with a massive group of friends. Your first year should be a blur of drinking, nights out and falling out with your flatmates over who’s turn...
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Eastern Electrics: ‘a toast to the genre of house music held back by the organiser’s greed’
I’m going to start this review with a qualifier that I had a great time at Eastern Electrics. The music was brilliant with high production value put into the stages, and I ate some delicious food. Still as I bopped my way around I was being wrung...
James WitherspoonCommon at The National: ‘historically hazy and underdeveloped’
Common should have been one of this year’s theatrical highlights – a vindication of The National’s fresh direction. D.C. Moore’s play explores untrodden territory for English theatre: the requisitioning of ‘common’ land at the height of the...
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NSFW at the Lion and Unicorn: ‘balanced satire, sharp humour and vulnerability’
What is it like to work in a consumer magazine? Not I Theatre presents a dark comedy about young people starting out in the media. Unpaid intern work, crazy supervisors and fallen hopes are what the young editorial team at ‘Doghouse’...
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