Month: October 2015

Thousands of Labour Party activists headed to Brighton’s Hilton Metropole for the party’s annual conference from 27 – 30 September. The conference saw speeches from Labour MPs, including their newly…

Caroline Lucas, the MP for Brighton Pavilion and the only elected member of the Green Party, visited the University of Sussex for the first time since her re-election in May.…

Over 100 people have signed a petition in support of The Badger after a dispute with the Students’ Union about an article. The Students’ Union allege that last week’s edition…

MSc Computer Science student, George Lengyel, is an entrepreneurial runner-up of the 2015 StartUp Sussex Award, winning £5,000. Using his social networking knowledge he presented an idea for a new…

Brighton & Hove City Council is currently considering a planning application submitted by the University of Sussex to create a state-of-the-art engineering and robotics centre on its campus. A decision…

Second year Sussex student, Aaron Lawrence, has taken on the challenge of “wearing nothing but fancy dress for a whole year”. The challenge is in aid of raising money and…

The Anarchist Society has launched a weekly drop-in to hear from aggrieved tenants and to organise collective action against problem landlords and letting agents. The sessions are held in conjunction…

Over 100 students gathered in Library Square on 13 October to remember the victims of the Ankara massacre. Candles were lit amongst photos of those who died in the bomb…

The University of Sussex is one of the worst universities for crime in the south-east of England, according to a recent survey. Despite placing within the top 50 safest universities…

The University of Sussex has spent approximately £120,000 on the refurbishment of the Meeting House organ, according to documents obtained by The Badger. The refurbishment was paid for with money…

Only 612 students took part in this year’s Students’ Union Student Rep elections. This marks the lowest percentage turnout in recent years for Student Rep elections and is almost a…

In light of Black History Month I was unsure whether to review a book such as Pulitzer Prize winning The Color Purple (by Alice Walker) or the historical Roll of…

“Do you ever get the feeling that there’s something going on that we don’t know about?” asks one of the character’s in 1982’s Diner. Centring on six friends hanging out…

Picture a long, midnight motorway drive, the window is wide open, the air is fresh and cooling against the skin and the car stereo pulsates with the sound of strong,…

For a week in September, there was the ‘Waiting Wall’. An art instillation by Alan Donohoe and Steven Parker, the Waiting Wall was essentially a large board placed in Brighton…

Spector are back. It feels like an eternity since the band’s debut album Enjoy It While It Lasts hit the shelves but finally the four-piece indie rock band from London…

19-year-old producer and songwriter, Mura Masa is the latest up and coming artist to play at the recently reopened and renamed Patterns. He gets the name from the infamous Japanese…

Stand-up comedian Nish Kumar is bringing his new show, Long Word, Long Word, Blah Blah Blah… I’m so clever, to the Brighton Dome on the twenty-fourth of October. Kumar, who…

Whilst the audience slowly trickles into The Otherplace’s main room, a sole man occupies the stage. He is on his knees, his head submerged in a bucket of water. After…

Racing Minds are a long-form improv quintet consisting of Tom Skelton, Dougie Walker, Chris Turner, Dylan Townley, and Daniel Roberts. The group have sold out their Edinburgh runs since 2013…