NUS's 'No Platform' policy doesn't hurt free speech
Trigger warning: sexual violence A motion to ban the SWP from campus recently failed at a Sussex Students’ Union Emergency General Meeting. The motion arose from the way in which…
Has the Poppy Appeal become too commercialised?
With BBC presenters asked to wear poppies two weeks before 11th November and the advent of the #poppyselfie, The Badger asks whether the Poppy Appeal has lost it’s message? Yes…
Fashion hack
Dear Badger, Here’s a question for you. What is it with students around campus and their God awful fashion sense? Surely I can’t be the only person who thinks this?…
Just give it a chance
Dear Badger, Change; it comes in all shapes and sizes. Sometimes we look for it, sometimes we avoid it and sometimes it comes when we least expect it and when…
The Imitation Game Review
This year’s BFI London Film Festival had the honour of opening its diverse array of film screenings and events with the European premiere of Morten Tyldum’s highly anticipated biopic The…
The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth – Video Game Review
Three years ago Edmund McMillen, the designer of Super Meat Boy, released a seemingly basic game combining simple twin-stick shooting and Zelda dungeoneering. It wore its indie-ness on its sleeve,…
University of Sussex breaks timetable policy
Students at the University of Sussex have academic teaching scheduled on Wednesday afternoons, despite the University’s own policy against this. Education officer Bethan Hunt described the issue as “hypocritical” and…
Don't knock it
Dear Badger, Almost everything good in my life has come from social media. I spoke to my first boyfriends through Facebook; I’ve gotten two jobs through adverts on twitter from…
The eternal debate on life after death
YES For sceptics, there will never be enough reliable data, replicated studies, or a representative sample large enough to convince people that life-after-death exists. Neurophysiologist Dr Peter Fenwick states himself…
Free Education Sussex
The campaign formerly known as ‘Anti-Privatisation’ or ‘Occupy Sussex’ will carry on its work under the name of ‘Free Education Sussex’ from now on. With the privatisations of estates and…
#5Songs-2Wins
Hello, sports lovers of all kinds. To kick-start the essay-writing season and support the ongoing sportive campaign I am organizing a new fun and creative movement, which will regularly be…
Caroline Lucas speaks out about Recall Bill
Caroline Lucas, MP for Brighton Pavilion, has been leading the campaign in favour of giving voters the power to sack their MPs. The government’s Recall Bill, endorsed by Nick Clegg,…
Brighton style ‘Kiss-in’ staged in London
A ‘kiss-in’, styled on the similar Brighton event that took place earlier this month, was held in London in Trafalgar Square on Tuesday, to protest against the treatment of a…
Sussex celebrates Diwali
Maintaining the ‘culturally diverse’ repute of the University of Sussex, the South Asian Students’ Society (SASS) housed a spectacular show, celebrating the Indian festival of lights – Diwali. The festival…
The great British rebrand – Britain after the Scottish independence referendum
Dear Badger, During the Scottish Independence campaign my views on Scottish Independence varied. I started as a small-c conservative, wishing to see the status quo maintained. I now favour alternative…
Harsher sentences for online harassment
The UK government may introduce harsher prison sentences for online harassers a.k.a. internet trolls. The maximum prison sentence for the most severe cases could rise from six months to two…
The big kiss-in
Dear Badger, We are all aware that homophobia is a very real and very serious problem, even in the liberal bastion that is Brighton. A kiss-in at Sainsbury’s is not…
Studies show animal populations deteriorating
When the majority of people hear the words ‘animal extinction’, some obvious animal species come to mind; the tyrannosaurus rex, the saber-toothed tiger, the mammoth or even the dodo. But…
How much would you be willing to pay to study at Sussex?
Last week, some of the people from my master’s course and I were at a pub talking. We are mostly international students from all over the world and just two…
Norman Baker chats to The Badger: "I believe alcohol to be more harmful than cannabis"
Norman Baker has told The Badger that alcohol is more harmful than cannabis in a wide-ranging interview conducted last month. The Lewes MP yesterday became the highest-profile Liberal Democrat minister…