Review: Hot Girls Wanted: Turned On
In 2015 Sundance Film Festival screened one of the most interesting and raw documentaries on pornography of the 21st century. Following the 1998 first season of Louis Theoux’s Weird Weekends…
Review: Chelsea Wolfe at The Haunt 19.04.17
It is hard to file Chelsea Wolfe under a specific genre. Part Joni Mitchell-esque singer-songwriter folk and part all encompassing doom metal riffing, Wolfe has certainly carved out her own…
Review: Sick Festival
Last week, SICK! Festival, which describes itself as “the antidote to the physical, mental and social challenges of life”, came to the University of Sussex for a week long showcase…
The only victor of diaspora wars is white supremacy
On Sunday 19 th March I logged off Twitter in a fit of frustration. This source of my indignation: once again Black Twitter was embroiled in diaspora wars. There are…
Marching for Europe, challenging injustice
On Saturday 25 March, I attended the ‘Unite for Europe’ march to Parliament, along with tens-of-thousands of others. The aim of this march was simple: to make sure the voices…
The Big Debate: It is selfish to focus disproportionately on terror attacks in the West
Agree Devin Thomas In a world of increased connectedness and supposed solidarity, the fact that terror attacks that occur closer to home are still so much more significant in our…
Review: SMuTS West Side Story – ‘Sensuous, humorous and heartbreaking’
Photograph: Malcolm Tam The main SMuTS production of 2016-17 was West Side Story (directed by Andrew Crouch), a rousing, high-energy production which played to sold out audiences through five performances…
Superbugs receive a dual drug attack
Earlier this year, under the attention grabbing title of ‘Gonorrhea can be incurable, pay attention’, we reported on a United Nations Assembly meeting on the issue of antibioitic resistance. The…
Preview: Live At Leeds 2017
Award-winning metropolitan all-dayer, Live At Leeds is back for another year and 2017 sees them flaunt another impressive billing. Having earned a reputation in previous years for showcasing some of…
Interview: Cariad Lloyd
We interview Cariad Lloyd about her time at Sussex University where she discusses Lewes Court, slugs and tea drinking. Cariad Lloyd is one of the UK’s fastest rising comedians. Known…
State of Nature: Immersive political theatre
This wasn’t theatre, this was an interactive evening in Utah with the State Governor, Merriweather, come terrorist which blew me away, literally, there is a terror explosion in the first…
Lucie Andrau – Au Revoir and Merci
It’s been a pleasure to see your work, and get to know you every week. You guys have been an endless source of inspiration and motivation for me. Your beautiful…
Update on ‘SpaceX spaced out’
Back in November The Badger, Science reported that SpaceX was planning to launch 4,425 satellites into space in order to provide high speed Internet access across the world. At the…
Why Ireland will remember Martin McGuinness
It is clear that all of Ireland lost a unique and remarkable Statesman on Tuesday. The life of Martin McGuinness is an interesting and complex one, but the most resounding…
‘Unite and Fight’: Why Sussex students should back rail strikes
If there were any more evidence needed of the government’s continued efforts to undermine unions on strike, it has come in the form of the recent amendments to the Trade…
Springing forward to a summer of sport
Alas fair readers, as this is the last printed edition of The Badger I thought it would be apt to look ahead to the summer of sport whilst we are…
Review: Warpaint – Brighton Dome 29.03.17
After a brief hiatus, LA band, Warpaint are back with their third studio album ‘Heads Up’ and are touring it across the UK. Tonight we find them in Brighton Dome…
The Big Debate: Should media be sanitised to protect citizens?
Agree William Singh The classic problem with any motion containing words like “sanitised” is it’s almost impossible to argue that we should censor, but instinctively most people will be able…
Editorial: On the Westminster attacker as a Sussex graduate
This week we found out that the perpetrator of the horrendous Westminster attack, Khalid Masood, studied at Sussex back in the 1990’s . Students tweeted about worries the university’s reputation…
Stuart Heritage: “Why I hate seagulls”
Stuart Heritage is a freelance journalist who mainly writes for The Guardian. After a talk for The Badger, he told us his ideal article would be about how much he…