Onca Gallery Launch Review
Most art exhibition launches consist of sipping champagne and polite small talk about the art they display. But when I arrived at the Onca Gallery’s launch of FutureCoast and was…
‘The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl’ Review
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…
Chvrches Review
Ever since Chvrches debut album, ‘The Bones of What You Believe’, came out in 2013, they hit the ground running. Their usage of 80’s sounding synthesizer combined with the distinctive…
Festifeel Preview
After a sell out in 2014, Festifeel makes its sixth return with a fantastic array of acts for their annual event on Saturday 10th October at House of Vans in…
‘Eliza and the Bear’ Preview
London five piece, Eliza and the Bear, are back with their biggest headline UK tour to date. These lives shows signal the run up to their debut album, which is…
Kimberly Anne Preview
After supporting the likes of HAIM, Ella Eyre and Jake Bugg, Kimberly Anne is going on her first headline tour around her sold out London show on the 8th October.…
Pale and male? Representation and Jeremy Corbyn’s cabinet
The new Labour shadow cabinet positions have been allocated, and I have been struggling (significantly more than usual) to deal with the fatuous and repetitive onslaught that the media has…
Why students should strike for free education
#StudentStrike: WTF is going on? On the 10th of September the National Executive Council (NEC) of the National Union of Students (NUS), which represents around seven million students nationally, including…
The Big Debate: Should Britain have an “open-door” policy towards refugees?
Yes Before I begin my side of this debate – which is, of course, ‘yes’ – I would like to pose a question to my readers: If a member of…
President of Sussex UKIP society decries Anarchist ‘totalitarianism’
As the president of a UKIP society at what is, in general, a very left-wing university, I’m well aware of the fact that our views are not popular with a…
The Labour leadership election: A new hope for democracy?
A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away… It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from a not so hidden base (Islington North) have won…
Public air shows: Fight or flight?
The worst thing any piece of entertainment can be is boring. Say what you will about dreadful films like “Turkish Star Wars”, they’re nothing compared to the painfully lifeless chick…
Alastair Campbell: “I am and was a control freak”
In the second and final part of The Badger’s interview with Alastair Campbell, Harry Howard talks to the former New Labour spin-doctor about the media, Thatcherism, Michael Farthing and more.…