The Badger: SPArring for Victory
For the first time in Sussex University’s history, The Badger walked away from The Student Publication Association’s (SPA) regional awards with the honour of being named Best Publication in the…
The Golden Globes: Just Glamour or The Gold Standard
Last year, I wrote about the relevance and importance of the Academy Awards in terms of whether or not we should take the Academy’s decisions as gospel as to what…
The Oscars 2025: Anora’s Surprising Sweep and the Unsurprising Snubs
Winning an Academy Award is considered the pinnacle of success for a filmmaker or actor’s career. Realistically, however, the Oscars are a contest of who deserves an award, whose “moment”…
The Awarding Gap: How Students of Colour are Falling Behind their White Peers
Though ethnicity awarding gaps have been a long-standing problem in UK universities, it seems that there is still no effective solution found to tackle this issue. For 16 years in…
Vashti Hardy, the Brighton author shortlisted for Waterstones award
One of Brighton’s local talents, Vashti Hardy, has been shortlisted for the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize 2019 for her debut novel Brightstorm. She will be in with the chance to…
Nine nominations for UniTV station
The University of Sussex Student Television network, UniTV, is nominated for nine National Student Television Association (NaSTA) awards this year. The nominations include Best Broadcaster, Best Title Sequence, Best Video-to-Music,…
Does Oscar gossip distract from genuine interest in films?
As award ceremonies go, the Oscars are by far the most prestigious. The first Academy Award ceremony was held in 1929, and it would be difficult to find anyone who…