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Brighton & Hove – first ‘Urban Biosphere City’?

For centuries places such as the Amazon rainforest and the Mojave Desert have been recognised as being among the most unique and exceptional places on Earth; now it appears that…

Narrow defeat for Men’s Hockey 1st

Last Wednesday Sussex Men’s 1st hockey team opened their league campaign with a disappointing 3-2 home defeat to a Surrey team which they clearly had the measure of for large…

NUS supports ‘No’ vote in free education referendum

Students of Bangor University have been shocked to find the leadership of the NUS campaigning for a “no” vote in their upcoming referendum on whether to support the abolition of…

1 in 3 graduates not paying back loans

The Students Loans Company has revealed that as many as one in three graduates are not paying back their loans since the introduction of University fees in 1998. The main…

UK Youth Parliment

Campaign pound coins have been circulated in Westminster to highlight the cost of undergraduate tuition fees and to raise awareness of the issue to both the public and those in…

US Election special

American youth backs Barack Obama When it comes to the US elections, we’re constantly hearing numbers and polls. When it comes to hearing peoples opinions, we’re also bombarded. However they’re…

Republicans of the future

Tuesday 4 November 2008 is undoubtedly a date which will be forever marked in global history as the day the American public go to the polls. Their role is to…

Blind drunk: dangerous vodka on sale in Brighton

A recent search of off-licences across Brighton and Hove brought a whole new meaning to the expression “blind drunk” as five establishments were found to be selling counterfeit vodka which…

Roy Walker interview: see what he says!

The sixty-eight year old Irish comic Roy Walker is most famed for presenting TV show ‘Catchphrase’ for fourteen years. For the very few of you who haven’t watched the best…

Lucy leaves a desperate taste in the mouth

Lucy Porter, Pavilion Theatre- Tuesday 14 October 2008 Perhaps you have an older sibling that’s had no luck in life – you know the kind the one that gets very…

Discipline and Punish

‘Discipline and Punish’, SUDS’ Edinburgh Fringe 2008 play, is in essence very minimalistic. The ominous and oppressive staging consists only of one desk, two chairs and the all-important sign, which…

Moran tells it like it is

Last weekend saw the return of actor and comedian Dylan Moran to the Brighton stage. This two night stop of his latest tour, “What it is” sold out months in…

Bright Sparks

Flash fiction is the literary equivalent of hotpants: there are short shorts, and then there are short shorts, and that is the best way to sum up flash fiction. The…

Selling out to fit in

Let’s take New Labour as an introductory example, in this little thesis of mine. Mr Blair and chums had to sell out, beyond the edge of taste, just to get…

Smash EDO, not your credibility

A militant left-wing group that disbanded three decades ago re-entered the public consciousness this month when Sarah Palin accused Barack Obama of “palling around with terrorists.” Obama had been linked…

Education Not for Sale – a response

In reply to your article, “E.N.S – Education Not for Sale – An Overview”, I would like to point out two oversights. The first concerns the importance of ENS and…

Resisting an EU Conquest

Dear Brits, I am calling out to defenders of the realm. Especially to students whom we need so badly in our fight against oppressors of freedom – externally (the corporate-cartel-dominated…

Has-been has been to Brighton

Will David Essex’s comeback musical impress Alex Godbold and Becca Turton This Monday, Brighton’s Theatre Royal was transformed into a dazzling, smoke filled fairground for the opening night of David…

Body matters

Kalim Patel learns that you don’t have to be perfect to be beautiful If you were disappointed with the amount of nudity that your first few weeks at Uni have…

Lewes FC find life tough in their brave new world

‘Proud members of the Blue Square Premier League,’ the sign outside the Dripping Pan pronounces, and if you knew where Lewes Town Football Club had come from you would understand…