After the publication in this paper of a report that eleven Warwick students had been suspended due to private group chat messages sent on Facebook, the Student Publication Association tweeted in support, saying that ‘This is what student journalism is about.’ I could not disagree more. I have read the...
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University vice-chancellors have been accused of being vastly overpaid bureaucrats who bring relatively little value to the institutions they run. Worse for their reputation is the well-documented use of their expense accounts for items that often appear to be personal rather than professional, and in some cases rather frivolous. The...
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The current dispute between the University and College Union (UCU) and UUK – the body in charge of the University Superannuation Scheme (USS) pension fund, has led to strike action – which, coming in the second half of the Spring Term will badly affect students and particularly impact those in...
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This article is neither a moral justification nor a moral condemnation of colonialism. In fact, I will try to avoid making moral statements altogether. What I will present here is a collection of facts that demonstrate that the history of empire and colonialism has bequeathed different parts of the world...
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History has seen many great disasters. The defeat of the Persian armada at Salamis in 480BC. The destruction of the Hindenburg. The invention of the iPhone, leading to the society of depressed and atomised individuals in which we find ourselves today. But there is one calamity which is unsurpassed in...
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One of the major issues with intersectional feminism is its emphasis on eroding the barriers between the public and private spheres. This is best summed up by the phrase “the personal is political”, originally used by feminists of the second wave to encourage a debate about women’s place in domestic...
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