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Keep an eye on the police

A research group at the University of Cambridge has found that providing police officers with body-worn reduces complaints against the police. What would you do if the people supposed to…

The Hinkley Conundrum

It will cost billions to build, the technology isn’t sound and there are cheaper, safer alternatives yet we’re still going ahead with Hinkley point C. The government has given the…

Brighton University confirms Hastings campus closure

The Director of the University of Brighton Hastings campus, Paul Frost, confirmed last week that the campus would be closed down. Frost told representatives from the student and faculty campaign…

The Big Interview: Caroline Lucas

William Singh and Glenn Houlihan Photos: Miles Fagge Caroline Lucas is a very familiar name to those living in her Brighton Pavilion constituency. Elected to Parliament in 2010, and re-elected…

The end of ‘the end of history’?

Francis Fukuyama’s now-infamous and much-derided proclamation of the victory of liberal democracy now lies in tatters. It is increasingly clear that the globalised economy has made many feel that liberalism…

Gonorrhoea can be incurable, pay attention

On the 21st September The United Nations General Assembly held a meeting on the issue of antibiotic resistance and it’s not a moment too soon. Imagine a time when cancer…

Student’s Union Campaigns for better-lit campus

Sussex students have expressed outrage at the number of broken lights on the university’s campus. In a walk around the university and at a sit-in protest by Falmer House, the…

The People v. O.J. Simpson: Review

American crime television seemed to have been in a rut until these past couple years. Shows like the 2015 docudrama Making a Murderer, 2014’s How To Get Away with Murder…

Registrar John Duffy resigns

University Registrar John Duffy has resigned and will leave in December. Mr Duffy will be moving to London Met University as Chief Operating Officer. Duffy said: “I am delighted to…

Big Debate: ‘Is globalism a failed project?’

Proposition Will Cronk Globalism is a wonderful force which does an extraordinary amount of good for an extraordinarily small number of people. The reason I describe it as a wonderful…

It’s the end of the world as we know it

A recent study along with Trump’s platform for the 2016 election means it’s pretty much game over in the fight to save ourselves A new study has recently been published…

Sanjay Noonan – Poetry

Sanjay Noonan is a 3rd year Medicine student at Sussex. ” I started writing poetry when I was 14, although it has never been something I have shared . It…

Becky Murray – Drawings and Photography Collage

Becky Murray is a 2nd Year Neuroscience student at Sussex. Becky has always been very secretive about her many talents. It took me two years of sharing a house with…

Miles Fagge – Poetry

Miles Fagge is a 3rd year English Literature student, as well as our Theatre Editor here at The Badger ! ” For me poetry does not always have to be…

Sherwin Wong – ‘PingYao Romance’

Sherwin Wong is a 3rd year Media Practice student at Sussex. ” I have been doing photography for 7 years, and I am particularly interested in film photography. Most of…

Stefania Chihaia – Photopoetry

Stefania Chihaia is a 3rd year Media and Communications student. ”I started writing poetry a year ago, and discovered that the words would just come flowing out of me. Ever…

Nathalie Ratcliff and Archie Mustow – A shared passion for Drawing

Nathalie Ratcliffe is a 2nd year Art History student. ” I have always loved painting and drawing as a past time and it really relaxes me so I often turn…

J. J. FARNDON – ‘LAYERS OF SKIN’

Jasmine is a third year English Literature and History student here at Sussex. L.A : When did you start writing/ taking photos? J.F : ”I have kept diaries off and…

The Border of the Future

The election of Donald Trump last week was, for many Mexicans and Mexican-Americans, a cause for deep dismay. Relations between the two countries have been a focal point of Trump’s…

Memories of the past are shaping our future

Memory is a loaded word. It can mean joy, nostalgia for a time that has passed. It can also be painful, something that the rememberer tries their best to avoid.…