When I tell people that I want to enter the media after university, I’m often met with a sea of discerning faces. “Why would you want to be part of such a corrupt institution?” they ask, before listing the crimes of Murdoch and co. Responses to my career of choice...
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Just over a month ago, the rape trial of Liam Allan, a 22 year-old student, collapsed after the police handed over text message data which supported his case for innocence. He lived ‘two years of hell’ in a legal limbo, and spent months not knowing whether he was to be...
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For more than half a century the topic of drugs and their place in society has been hotly contested. The prevailing orthodoxy that drugs are dangerous substances and should be banned by the state has increasingly come in to question in an unprecedented manner. Many nations and regions, such as...
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I see Uber as more than just a taxi app which lets us get around. From a student’s perspective, it is yet another innovation that has increasingly come to define our generation. It’s even coined the term ‘uberization’ – combining modern technology with radically transform a traditional industry such as taxicabs....
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After the election, YouGov conducted a poll and found that barely 20% of people aged 18-24 voted Conservative, compared to over 60% of people who voted for Labour. Most young people think the Tories have little to offer young people except austerity and student debt. Rather than having the wrong...
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I am not a fan of the current system of student loans. I hold the perhaps unusual view that we need to have significantly fewer people going to university – a view almost non-existent in mainstream political debate, with both parties and the majority of people believing a mass university...
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Two weeks ago, at exactly 4:20PM, Hyde Park was unusually hazy for this time of year. Thousands had descended into the Central London park to mingle, enjoy the Easter sun, but most importantly, get high. Who knew there are so many cannabis smoking criminals in the country! But recently, it...
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Although immigration isn’t a particularly big issue for students and young people, it is nationally. Just before the EU referendum last year, an Ipsos Mori poll found it was voters’ highest concern, with it taking second or third place in general elections. Figures are sky high, so why don’t we...
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On Friday 3 March, the roof fell in on Warwick student politics. Or rather, it almost did. The Dirty Duck’s structural snafu occurred earlier in the day. Though this ensured none of the candidates were injured, it also meant the kitchen was out of action – bursting with any hopes...
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Student politics has long been a distant entity to most of us here on campus. Many may cite the NUS discount card or the copious amounts of cardboard on campus now that it is election week, but not much else. The recent actions of the Student Council (which, understandably, most...
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Last month, The Telegraph alleged that a third of students frivolously waste their loans, indulging their hedonistic desires – drinking, partying and shopping. All unnecessary and contrary to the ethos of rigorous study and discussion. Unsurprisingly this brought the fury of students. They slap us with £9,000 fees and now...
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Many are familiar with the position of the Mayor of London for its rather flamboyant, headline-grabbing incumbents, such as Boris Johnson or current mayor Sadiq Khan. However, as part of the government’s push for regional devolution, a number of areas, including the West Midlands, are electing mayors this year. Those...
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Two months ago, over 10,000 students and lecturers took to the streets of London in what has now become a familiar sight, protesting against rising tuition fees. They claimed that tuition fees, which if the government’s higher education bill is passed will be allowed to rise to £9,250, along with...
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