Freya Marshall Payne

As a goodbye from the News team, we looked back through every issue of The Badger this year and selected a few of the best stories we’ve broken. We’ve revisited…

This year the National Union of Students (NUS) is holding its National Conference in Brighton, and the Badger has sent Dan Green and me to report. Dan is live tweeting…

Photo: Dan Green This year the National Union of Students (NUS) is holding its National Conference in Brighton, and the Badger has sent Dan Green and me to report. We…

Biological sex is assigned at birth and determines a large proportion of our future lives – we are expected to act, talk and even dress in a certain, predefined, way…

For a long time it’s been believed that the cause of schizophrenia lies in the interplay between genetic and environmental factors, complimented by imbalances in dopamine transmission. But a study…

This is the story of how two people could save millions of lives as their genes have revealed a treatment for diabetes, one of the top 10 causes of death…

The Badger’s former Editor, Daniel Green, won Highly Commended for the “Outstanding Commitment” award at the Student Publication Association (SPA) National Conference last weekend. Dan was made Editor in October…

With the upcoming EU referendum viewed as inevitable, it was no surprise when British Chancellor George Osborne kick-started the year by laying down an ultimatum regarding Britain’s relationship with the…

The University of Sussex has appointed Professor Adam Tickell as its new Vice-Chancellor. He will replace current Vice-Chancellor Michael Farthing on 1st September 2016. Tickell is the current Provost and…

Photo: Safer Sussex sit-in at Sussex House. Content warning: sexual violence and rape. Around 5 years ago, a female student at Sussex University was raped, and lost so much blood…

Wild Life Festival is back! Disclosure’s and Rudimental’s brainchild comes into its second installment after last year’s success. With an eclectic and innovative lineup, featuring new blood and musical legends…

This last week marks the one year anniversary of Sussex students voting overwhelmingly for the student union to boycott products from Israel, as part of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions…

On March 31st the world lost one of the greatest and most pioneering architects the world has seen. Zaha Hadid passed away after suffering from a heart attack at the…

Taken on a whirlwind of vignettes, Stabs in the Dark from director Ka Wei Chan and producer Maddie Holderness is the perfect title for a play that penetrates that fragmentary…

Debuting on Wednesday, March 16th, Sussex University Drama Society (SUDS) presented an evening of two short, twenty-minute plays. The plays were completely unrelated, set in two different dimensions, and all…

Acclaimed screenwriter and second time director Charlie Kaufman may well have cemented himself as an expert on the human condition with his latest feature film. Anomalisa follows Michael Stone, a…

It’s an awkward title isn’t it? Unwieldy, hefty, hard to define. At least ‘Man of Steel’ made sense, representing a fresh take on a cultural icon while emphasising the humanity…

As an English and History graduate, I chose my degree because I enjoyed the subject. I wanted the opportunity to explore the past in different mediums, understand the authors who…

An open letter signed by 200 members of staff demanding the University contest the Home Office’s recent decision to deport ex-student Luqman Onikosi has received a reply from the Vice…

As a supporter of the #DontDeportLuqman campaign, when I asked what to write for this article about the campaign Luqman replied “What do you want to write about – justifying…