More than Meets the Eye: The Unlikely Role of Religious and Cultural Symbolism in Fashion
For years the symbol of the Christian cross has been used as a common fashion accessory. The cross that was once a symbol of shame for early Christians is now…
The Undateables: The Problem’s in the Name
The similarities between ‘The Undateables’ and other reality shows popular at the minute is its subject of a group of people attempting to navigate the dating scene and find love,…
Your Valentines Day: I Hope it was a Massacre
If you took your other half out for Valentine’s Day, you shouldn’t have bothered. You could’ve done better. Do something more valuable with your time. Take a swing dancing class.…
Is Volunteering Abroad the Most Self-Indulgent Gap Year?
We’ve all known that person. He pops up in seminars, she’s talking about it at the bus stop, he’ll give a patronizing, impassioned speech about it because he can, and…
The Importance of the audience in Jeremy Kyle
Watching The Jeremy Kyle Show while procrastinating from work always brings forth a number of interesting dilemmas: spats about people disowning children, sleeping with their girlfriend’s mothers, and using their…
Review: Emmy the Great
The Green Door Store hadn’t known what hit it as people continued to excitedly squeeze in to see Emmy the Great. The same could be said for her support act,…
Audience and the Hobbit: The Burden of Expectation
When adapting any popular book to the big screen, one of the most important and difficult elements of the process is staying true enough to the source material to satisfy…
Hacks and their Traps: A Plea
As a journalist I may be cutting off my nose to spite my face somewhat, but there is nothing worse than hearing the unfiltered contents of your peers’ sarcy minds…
Artlists: Over/Under
The Arts team continue their new section in which they come up with a theme and then list our film/music/TV/literary preferences according to that particular theme. This week, we delve…
City Venues and the Festival
Curated by the band Wire and One Inch Badge, Drill was a city-festival which took part in October last year (strategically, just when I was holding my breath for the…
Review: Yes, we’re still writing about Drill Festival 2014. This will be the last time, we promise…
Those of you who so much as glanced at the Badger Arts pages last term would likely have realised that we were very, very excited for Drill festival. I must…
Rae Morris Interview
2014 was a pretty incredible year for you, what was the highlight? I think finishing the album was definitely a highlight, knowing it was done. It was a real weight…
Bitter Lake Review
Adam Curtis’ latest documentary, Bitter Lake, examines the roles of America, Britain and Saudi Arabia over the past sixty years in Afghanistan. Taking its title from the location of a…
Students’ Union reverse UKIP decision after online poll
UKIP will be invited to a debate jointly organised by the Students’ Union and Politics Society after 70% of students polled supported a move to invite all candidates. Originally, the…
Gilmore-isms: pop culture and comedy in Gilmore Girls
When most of us who grew up in the noughties are asked of a teen drama we favoured watching, the answer tends to be Gossip Girl, One Tree Hill or…
Happiness is just a 'swipe right' away
Where did you parents meet? School? Gig? Pub? Work? Somewhere which involved one of them crossing the floor and saying ‘hello’, I’ll bet. When you yourself eventually copulate and produce…
A lowdown on the ‘three-parent babies’ debate
On February 3, MPs voted in favour of changing the law on a controversial IVF technique to create babies with ‘three parents’. The new law will allow IVF clinics to…
The ever changing tides of piracy and The Pirate Bay
The last few months have been a turbulent ride for file sharing site The Pirate Bay. For years the site “hid” from the authorities by constantly changing their URL and…
LGBTQ+ first person account: I am Bisexual
Grace Kavanagh provides a personal account of her decision to ‘come out’ as bisexual, detailing her reception and anxieties surrounding it. I have recently come out as bisexual. Although there…
What will the face of feminism look like in 2015?
Last year was, what seemed to be, a very noisy year for feminism. It seemed to be one of the most talked about topics across social media with global trends…