Don't knock it
Dear Badger, Almost everything good in my life has come from social media. I spoke to my first boyfriends through Facebook; I’ve gotten two jobs through adverts on twitter from…
Free Education Sussex
The campaign formerly known as ‘Anti-Privatisation’ or ‘Occupy Sussex’ will carry on its work under the name of ‘Free Education Sussex’ from now on. With the privatisations of estates and…
Caroline Lucas speaks out about Recall Bill
Caroline Lucas, MP for Brighton Pavilion, has been leading the campaign in favour of giving voters the power to sack their MPs. The government’s Recall Bill, endorsed by Nick Clegg,…
Brighton style ‘Kiss-in’ staged in London
A ‘kiss-in’, styled on the similar Brighton event that took place earlier this month, was held in London in Trafalgar Square on Tuesday, to protest against the treatment of a…
Sussex celebrates Diwali
Maintaining the ‘culturally diverse’ repute of the University of Sussex, the South Asian Students’ Society (SASS) housed a spectacular show, celebrating the Indian festival of lights – Diwali. The festival…
The big kiss-in
Dear Badger, We are all aware that homophobia is a very real and very serious problem, even in the liberal bastion that is Brighton. A kiss-in at Sainsbury’s is not…
Norman Baker chats to The Badger: "I believe alcohol to be more harmful than cannabis"
Norman Baker has told The Badger that alcohol is more harmful than cannabis in a wide-ranging interview conducted last month. The Lewes MP yesterday became the highest-profile Liberal Democrat minister…
Sussex lose to Manchester in University Challenge first round
Sussex was unable to progress to the second round of the BBC’s University Challenge after losing out to Manchester in their first-round clash broadcast last night. The 2014 team of…
Dealing with depression
Dear Badger, ‘Ah, sounds like first world problems’. This is the most common response I hear when someone talks about a depressed person. The cultural image of a depressed person,…
Love your friends
Dear Badger, Monica & Rachel; Bert & Ernie; Kanye & Jay Z; Mark & Jez; Oprah & Gayle; Man & Dog; Marth & Fran. What have all these pairs got…
Creatures of the Night – Mass Hilarity!
First I think it is important to state that my uncle can outdrink anyone. When he came for Christmas, my dad, brother and aunt thought that it would be a…
The Moan Zone – Scrooge You!
There’s one thing I really hate about Christmas and like most Christmas-related things it happens every year, without fail. Just as the selection boxes, the advent calendars and the yule…
Academic Armchair – Dr Katerina Deligiorgi, Philosophy
This week we’re supping mulled wine, curling up by the fire, weeping at a John Lewis advert, and preparing for an obese Coca-Cola saint to invade our obscenely decorated home.…
Creatures of the Night – It's a chunderful time of the year
I should mention before I start that I’ve never thrown up on a night out or with a hangover. Don’t get me wrong – I’ve drunk far too much and…
Fairytale of Old Steine
This week I am going to talk about the lack of Christmas spirit among our fellow Brightonians! When I went to town last week I was overrun by excitement and…
Academic Armchair – Dr Ben Fincham, Sociology
Dr Benjamin Fincham, or just Ben to those of us who regularly make the painfully steep ascent to Friston, has an ace office. I am trying to focus on the…
US election: It's the grassroots, stupid
Gabriel Raeburn Think back to the week before the American election. According to Gallup, Republican Mitt Romney held a five percentage point lead over President Obama. Romney also had twice…
Liberal students and 'Tory scum'
Tom Foster Sussex students are often as liberal as Brighton is, and I don’t think anyone can doubt these liberal dispositions incline us to bear left in the political spectrum.…
Mike Weatherley 'pelted with rocks and chased off campus'
Conservative MP Mike Weatherley left campus on Wednesday to escape a group of protesters who had gathered outside the Silverstone building at the University of Sussex. He had been due…
Palestine Awareness Week "a success"
Sussex Friends of Palestine’s week ‘Palestine Awareness Week’ was a series of events taking place on campus aimed to draw attention to the Israel-Palestine conflict. Their aim was to raise…