Talking Chimpanzees? Sounds Bananas
Language is the pinnacle of evolution; it has allowed humans to communicate with each other to build a complex network of interactions which has resulted in the world we live…
Sussex celebrates its 50th
While current Sussex students enjoyed their long summer break and freshers nervously awaited their all important results, the University of Sussex was alive with celebrations of the 50th anniversary of…
Guide to Cheap Theatre
Purse strings may be being tightened and fists planted firmly into pockets, but the luxurious practice of going to the theatre seems to have risen above the limitations of the…
Readers Inc: Never Let Me Go
It is clear a book is wonderful when it can lead you from rejoicing at the smallest, quietest achievements on one page to shedding tears of sorrow and despair on…
Readers Inc: The Big Book Share
Books have a strength like no other – a book that has been enjoyed invokes a desire to share, to inform, to discuss. Passionate readers will be familiar with the…
Terence Rattigan: 100 Years
A blue plaque marks 79 Marine Parade, the former Brighton home of playwright Terence Rattigan, and his residency in our city is also evident by the presence of his name…
Flare Path & Cause Celebre
For his Centenary Year, much of Terence Rattigan’s work has been given a dusting down and found its way back to the stage. Beneath the dust, however, it has become…
Young Voters' Question Time
With Richard Bacon replacing Big Brother presenter Dermot O’Leary in this second instalment of Young Voters’ Question Time, the BBC were clearly responding to the negative press the new program…
Readers Inc: Save the Libraries
Libraries have been part of our society for over 150 years, ever since the Public Libraries Act of 1850 deemed them an essential tool to ‘raise educational standards throughout society’.…
Readers Inc: The Orange Prize
Virginia Woolf argued in her essay A Room of One’s Own, that a woman must possess an ‘incandescent and androgynous’ mind if she is to succeed; that the piece of…
Brighton Fringe Festival: Small Space
Small Space was not set in Gala Bingo Car Park at all. A fact that was rather confusing on first arrival when the reception had no knowledge of any fringe…
Brighton Festival Fringe: Anima
Anima was about light and darkness as metaphors for life. How exposed are we or why do we chose to stay in the darkness? What does each of them bring…
Brighton Festival Fringe: This Time Tomorrow
This Time Tomorrow was quite possibly the best performance I have ever seen. Comprised of four fifteen minute vignettes taking place in four cars in Hanover Community Centre it was…
Brighton Festival Fringe: This Is Just To Say
Apologising is one of the most distinctively British things out there. In a culture where one is taught to say sorry from a very early age, it has quickly become…
Brighton Festival Fringe: Front
There is something novel about a performance in a shop window. Not quite as novel as it would have been a decade ago, since then the concept of watching a…
Food for thought: The Politics and Pleasures of Food
As a keen reader of the Observer Food Monthly, I was excited to be attending this event – especially to see restaurant critic Jay Rayner and chef Yottam Ottolenghi, two…
The Charleston Festival
The idyllic cottage, Charleston, which was once home to members of the Bloomsbury group, plays host this summer to a wide range of literary and artistic treats at the annual…
Sussex student campaigns against unpaid internships
A student at the University of Sussex has launched a campaign against unpaid internships. Following a series of unpaid internships in London, Rachel Fordham, 20, set up a Facebook group…
RESULTS ANNOUCNED! Next year's part-time officers are revealed…
The election results for the new part-time officers of the University of Sussex Students’ Union came out on Thursday 19 May. Voting was conducted online, at Falmer House and the…