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A Truly Unforgettable Weekend

November 1, 2013 • Culture, Features

Leeds festival 2013 is likely to be remembered by its guests (especially those camping) as a weekend showcasing the renowned British weather at its best. Flooding tents, water-logged wellies and constantly damp underwear are certainly things that guests were all too familiar with over the course of the festival. However, Brits are obsessed with complaining of the weather and it would do the weekend no justice to be the only thing to mention. Continue Reading
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Are Modern Women More Conservative Than We Will Ever Confess?

November 1, 2013 • Culture, Featured, Features

Despite what many would have you believe, I consider myself a feminist. Continue Reading
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Owe, Owe, Owe Your Boat Gently Down Your Dreams

November 1, 2013 • Economics, Politics

You probably think the tuition fees story has been done to death. The rise of the maximum price a university in the UK can charge British students to £9,000 a year (from around £3,500) seems shocking enough; even more so when you realise that for a typical student studying on a 3 year course, the shot at an undergraduate education is likely to cost £27,000 in fees alone. Continue Reading
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What Feminism Really Means

November 1, 2013 • Culture, Politics

Feminists were once considered to be pioneers of women’s rights; in our society today they are seen as radical individuals, staging elaborate and somewhat controversial protests against what they see as masculine oppression. Not only is this interpretation wrong, but it belittles the everyday battles women worldwide face in order to gain the right to work, vote and have a quality education. Whilst European feminists run topless onto a catwalk during Paris Fashion Week to protest against the over-sexualisation of women, in Afghanistan girls are targeted for attending school. Feminism can take many forms, and before condemning the movement as a whole, one has to understand that before anything else feminism is a movement for equality. Continue Reading
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Who Cares About Politics?

November 1, 2013 • Politics

IN A TIME OF POLITICAL ANGER AND DISSATISFACTION, WHY IS NO-ONE VOTING?

Hansard is a nearly word-for-word account of all of the proceedings in Parliament. It gives its name to the Hansard Society, a political education and research charity concerned with analysing and boosting participation in our democracy. Its most important annual publication is its Audit of Political Engagement, and it makes for an incredibly depressing read. There is much talk about people getting less and less involved in politics, and this report provides the hard evidence of this. For those wishing to read the audit, it can be found in the Publications section of the Hansard Society website. Continue Reading
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Theatre Today

November 1, 2013 • Culture, Features

William Shakespeare may have been ever so slightly biased, when purporting that “all the world’s a stage”, but the relevance of this statement has not diminished in meaning in the four hundred years since it was written. However, theatre today has developed an image problem: being the preserve of the moneyed cognoscenti, rather than the everyman’s (or everywoman’s) choice form of entertainment, as it was in the Bard’s time. Continue Reading
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