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Noel Coward’s Star Quality is a play within a play, in which drama ensues not only on stage but off stage also; with the scriptwriter, director and leading lady constantly…

“The true value of a gift is not how much it costs, but the story that we attach to it,” wrote the economics editor of The Guardian last Christmas. Presumably…

In recent and recurring news, there have been parents choosing to raise their child without a specified gender, and with that have come many people who oppose it. The two…

Growing up as LGBTQ is not easy for any of us. We live in a world where it is expected for us to be heterosexual, and the gender we were…

Brighton has long been associated in my memory as the seaside town. My family would visit Brighton once or twice a year, since my early childhood. My earliest memory would…

As part of the Worthing Churches Homeless Projects, nearly 80 people spent a cold night in a school playground to focus attention on Brighton’s homelessness issue. Participants used cardboard boxes…

It may have gone relatively unnoticed, but last Friday, 20 January, marked three years to the day since Barack Obama was sworn in as President of the United States. You…

A freshly laid paving slab on the pathway outside the Arts A building reads: ‘Real knowledge is knowing what you do not know’. This statement and others are part of…

An intense week of election campaigns has culminated in the election of a new team of full-time Students’ Union (SU) sabbatical officers for the next academic year. Snowy scenes on…

BY Tom Hodgen Electricity is a huge part of most of our day-to-day lives. Without it we would not have lights, telephones, TV, internet, computers (Facebook!), mobile phones, and the…

By Alex Tawse A woman from the Students’ Union accidentally became the centre of a media frenzy this week after a story about her complaint to the Brighton and Hove…

Who said taking part in psychology experiments was boring? Well for one New Scientist reporter, getting involved with one study was orgasmic. Kayt Sukel was asked to stimulate herself while…

Love is a profound euphoric feeling, a culturally universal phenomenon. From an evolutionary perspective, candid affection facilitates reproduction, good parental care, and material benefits. It also fulfills our sociality as…

A Recent book written by Professor Richard Trigg, called ‘Equality, Freedom and Religion’, has caused some concern in both the religious and secular communities. Professor Trigg writes that: “religious freedom…

An anti-abortion group protesting in Brighton have come under attack from pro-choice residents. Abort67 protest outside the British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS) Clinic on Dyke Road, Brighton, every Tuesday and…

The Duke of York’s Picturehouse in Brighton has been voted as the country’s favorite cinema by visitors to the consumer review site qype.co.uk. The Duke of York’s Picturehouse is an…

Brighton & Hove City Council is considering requiring all Houses in Multiple Occupation (HMOs) in areas with particularly high student populations to be licensed. Currently, landlords owning HMOs only need…

The Association of Graduate Recruiters (AGR) has predicted that the average starting salary for a graduate is to rise by four percent to £26,000 this year. This year’s predicted increase…

The grant of The Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) will experience a cut of 13 percent this year. This is because the government will be allocating £5.86 billion…

Trouble for ‘Big Lemon’ A move from the cities municipal bus service, Brighton and Hove Buses, has led to the removal of one of The Big Lemon’s main routes. From…