Interview with Steve-O
Steve-O, the star of MTV show ‘Jackass’, talks to the Badger ahead of his stand-up performance at Brighton Coalition on 7 November. How was Clown College? For me it was…
The Big Debate – Remembrance Day – a civic duty?
“Why I will not pin a poppy to my chest” by Isabelle Acton I remember when I was at primary school and the prefects would amble through the classrooms clutching…
How should the police handle protests?
There is an unequivocal agreement that the primary role of the police is to uphold and implement law and order. However, implementation of order has always been a contentious issue…
Questioning the voyeuristic media
We live in a country that vehemently prescribes, promotes and defends the right to a fair trial, as explicitly proclaimed in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Article 14 in…
LGBTQ write to their schools
Sussex students have set up an initiative to help the schools they attended before university become more LGBT-friendly. The Lesbian, Gay, Bi, Trans and Queer Group (LGBTQ) launched the program…
Sussex still committed to bursaries over fee waivers
Despite government pressure on universities to create fee waivers at the expense of bursary schemes, the University of Sussex will not be altering their First Generation Scholars scheme. The Coalition…
Discover Brighton: 'Feast'
We all know that one of the best things about Christmas is consuming colossal amounts of food and drink. Before returning home for the holidays, why not rally up your…
Frozen Planet Review
Unfortunately, skyscrapers, traffic lights and monotonously uniformed trees aligned by the sides of pavements are becoming the daily landscape for a majority of the Western population. However, for 50 years,…
To Kindle, or not to Kindle?
I have a Kindle. It is very practical – I carry thirty-three books on me at all times, and if I want a book, within five minutes I have it…
Life's Too Short
‘Life’s Too Short’ is Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant’s return to the fly-on-the-wall documentary style that made their reputation ten years ago. It is clear they are relishing the opportunity…
Tyrannosaur film review
Joseph (Peter Mullan) is leading a chronically violent and self-destructive existence when he meets Hannah (Olivia Colman) a mild-natured catholic charity shop worker with her own secreted suffering. You may…
The art of yoga
The art of yoga is one that is often misunderstood. The word conjures up images of people wearing items of soft cotton, breathing deeply, surrounded by incense. An article in…
Digging the Grim Reaper's Grave: Aubrey de Grey's call for Spade
Imagine that a terrorist organization created an airborn e virus that infected the entire human race. Suppose that if we did not develop an antidote, an eighth of the world…
The Power of Proteins: Fuel for the future
Biofuel has many forms, ranging from the ethanol used in cars throughout Brazil to the famous and dreaded anaerobic digesters that convert waste into methane gas or even the used…
The 'Ghost like' trees of the Sindh region
They say that crisis brings about the best in us all, and the people of Pakistan have had to suffer extraordinarily at the hands of the floods that began in…
Weatherley MP pushes for changes to donation policy
MP Mike Weatherley is leading the push in Westminster for changes to organ donation policy, alongside MPs Paul Uppal, Marcus Jones and Guy Opperman. Weatherley has highlighted that whilst 522…
Sussex students take to streets of London
Two bus-loads of University of Sussex students will be joining students from across the country for anti-education cut protests on 9 November. The National Campaign Against Fees and Cuts (NCAFC)…
Caroline Lucas talks fees and trees at Sussex
MP for Brighton Pavilion Caroline Lucas dismissed Labour’s proposed ‘slash’ of student fees to £6000 as insufficient whilst speaking at The University of Sussex last week. The MP was also…
London council sends student to Sussex
The tuition fees of one University of Sussex student are being paid by his local council in a new scheme encouraging young people to study at university. William Camfield, 18,…
The Gap Yah Plannah
After the widespread success of the ‘Gap Yah’ videos, Orlando is back with his new book ‘The Gap Yah Plannah’. For those of you who are unawahh of the YouTube…