The Badger

The Tories are set to clampdown on UK visas for foreign students, particularly those from Afghani­stan and Pakistan. The proposal, put forward by Shadow Home Secretary, Chris Grayling, aims to…

Business secretary Lord Mandelson has declared that the government is to cut university funding in England by a total of £398m for 2010/11. The reduced allo­cations will witness £84m taken…

A video showing the protest on the 3rd December 2009 against over 100 proposed job cuts at the University of Sussex.

In a time where survival of the fittest means relatively nothing and most humans live to procreate despite illness, poverty and infertility, scientists are asking themselves the question: are we…

As we approach the end of the first decade of the 21st century, I thought it would be interesting to go over the discoveries and advances this past decade has…

Love 2, Air’s latest offering, arrives two years after the release of Pocket Symphony, and an entire electronic decade since their breakthrough album, Moon Safari: so what’s their latest like?

There are many gems of wisdom our parents have taught us to heed long beyond childhood; we should all aspire to brush our teeth twice daily, change our bedsheets at…

A new beer with a 32% alcohol content has jut been launched, and is described as the world’s strongest beer. The beer, named Tactical Nuclear Penguin, has been made by…

There’s a new league of superheroes on the loose. Based in Brighton, this rainbow-coloured team of caped crime-fighters appears in a comic called ‘Spandex’, by local artist Martin Eden. Characters…

It’s surprising: for a band whose roots are embedded in a region north of the border, The Twilight Sad sure do boast an impressive set of ties with Brighton. Perched…

Malcolm Middleton @ The Hanbury Club, 25/11/2009 Strangely enough, the first article I ever wrote for the music pages of The Badger was a gushing appraisal of Malcolm Middleton’s fourth…

The University of Sussex Students’ Union has issued sanctions against the Men’s Rugby Club in response to the incident that took place on campus on the night of October 21st,…

It’s been a while since we last had Gomez here in Brighton. The release of their new album A New Tide in March and their seemingly stealthy presence in the…

Raditude is Weezer’s seventh studio album and arguably one of their best. When I think of Weezer I think of a quirky pop-punk band from the States behind songs such…

Refuse workers across Brighton and Hove voted almost unanimously for strike action to start this week. The 300 strong work force of binmen, streetsweepers and mechanics employed by Brighton and…

Race and racism, diversity and equal opportunities are words that are bandied around a lot in higher education and a recent study has bought them again to the fore. The…

A Sussex student has won the prestigious ‘Scoop of the Year’ student journalism award. First year English Literature student, Juliet Conway, beat students up and down the country, winning out…

We, the students of the School of English, wholeheartedly oppose the University Management’s proposals to make sweeping redundancies across campus – this includes academic staff, but also library and IT…

The University of Sussex sexual advice service, Unisex, is to be closed down as part of the University’s scheme to save money. Unisex, which currently costs the University around £40,000…

In an alleged attempt by University management to prevent ‘Stop the Cuts’ campaign meetings, all large lecture theatres and seminar rooms were booked up last week by the University at…