Blurred Lines: Sexual assault survivors don’t need protecting from chart music
It’s been three years now since the release of Robin Thicke’s ‘Blurred Lines’ and despite it long disappearing out of the charts and therefore from Przym’s dance floor (thank god),…
Sussex campus: inaccessible and unacceptable
Image: Tim Brighton – Flickr On the first day back from easter break, Access Sussex— a Student Union campaign to ensure that students with disabilities do not face discrimination on…
The student voice has made itself irrelevant
Friday 11th March. A freshly-purchased bagel plummets to the ground, its owner’s mouth agape with shock, as a motorcade of two black Jaguars and three police cars comes to a…
Out of shore, out of mind: Panama Papers deserve action, not apathy
I must confess – and to anyone who knows me this takes some doing – to being wholly wrong. This isn’t a rarity; I’d wager a good 50% of my…
Why the occupation supporting Luqman Onikosi WAS productive, and why those who think it wasn’t shouldn’t feel afraid to speak out
“Any man’s death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.” John Donne On Friday…
The occupation in support of Luqman Onikosi was counter-productive
On Friday 11th March, I went down to Bramber House to watch a gathering of approximately 200 other students protesting against the Home Office’s decision to deport former Sussex student…
Live report from the Bramber House Occupation
6pm (12th March) Luqman Onikosi himself has released a statement about the university’s response to the occupation in Bramber House: “Thank you very much for all that has participated in…
The U.S Presidential Race: Power, Meet Madmen. Madmen, Meet Power.
Super Tuesday, Super Saturday… Why do all the vital voting nights in America sound like deals at Dominos? Perhaps because each of the Republican candidates epitomises a pizza topping. Marco…
Do history months promote recognition or exclusion?
This month is LGBTQ+ History month, and over twenty events are taking place at Sussex, making it the university’s biggest LGBTQ+ History Month to date. This annual observance has only…
Feminist denial of a cultural factor in Cologne attacks is dishonest and hypocritical
The headline of the recent comment piece by Frida Gustafsson was explicit, obvious and correct: ethnicity had nothing to do with the alleged sex attacks witnessed in Cologne, and other…
Sexual assaults shouldn’t be blamed on ethnicity
Trigger Warning: This article contains references to sexual assault 2016 is here and anti-immigration parties and groups have started it by taking on the issue of sexual assault. Pegida organised…
Podemos: Spain’s Presidential elections seen from a Spanish village
Freya Marshall Payne (in Hoyos, Caceres, Spain) This is my first holiday home from university, and I’ve arrived back into a little Spanish mountain village of crooked tile roofs and…
The Big Debate: Should “Jihadi John” have been given a fair trial?
Yes Is bombing the hell out of an executioner really the ‘right thing to do’? An executioner only acts on orders, and this (unconfirmed) killing won’t stop or even slow…
The Big Debate: Should the House of Lords be abolished?
Yes The House of Lords is the UK’s unelected second chamber. Before any legislation can become law in the UK it must be approved by the Lords, even if it…
The Big Debate: Does viewing pornography corrupt our sexuality?
Yes For a start, I am not going to discuss this question by using the term ‘corrupt.’ This word carries all kinds of negative connotations and moral judgements. I am…
The Big Debate: Should grammar schools be abolished?
Yes Should grammar schools be exterminated or expanded? EXTERMINATE! When I’m elected Prime Minister, on the biggest landslide result the nation has ever seen in the year 2040, the first…
The Big Debate: Should Sussex University divest from fossil fuels?
Yes The University of Sussex is renowned as a progressive institution, however it continues to invest in fossil fuel exploration in direct contradiction with UN and international climate change agreements.…
The Big Debate: Is the British monarchy a viable institution in the 21st century?
Yes As Queen Elizabeth II’s reign surpasses that of her great-grandmother Queen Victoria, it seems that anti-monarchist feeling has reached fever pitch. Yet here I will highlight the array of…
The Big Debate: Should Britain have an “open-door” policy towards refugees?
Yes Before I begin my side of this debate – which is, of course, ‘yes’ – I would like to pose a question to my readers: If a member of…
Alastair Campbell: “I am and was a control freak”
In the second and final part of The Badger’s interview with Alastair Campbell, Harry Howard talks to the former New Labour spin-doctor about the media, Thatcherism, Michael Farthing and more.…