Third time’s the charm?
Marine Le Pen has announced her candidacy for the 2022 French Presidential election.
One Year On: The Gilets Jaunes Movement
By Venice Hancock, News Sub-Editor. It has been a year since French protesters, known as the “Gilets Jaunes” (Yellow Vests), appropriately named for their chosen attire during demonstrations, first took…
Sussex students support Calais refugees
Yaz Kharroubi Sussex students and Brighton groups collaborated to give food, blankets and suitcases to refugees being expelled from the notorious Calais Jungle. Thousands of people were evicted last week…
Brexit, a month later: The Badger finds out what Europeans think now
Daniel Green A month ago today, the United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union, leaving uncertainty regarding withdrawal negotiations, Britain’s relationship with the 27-state organisation and the future for…
Terrorism and temporary profile pictures
So another wave of “change your profile picture to show ” has erupted over Facebook in the last week. Around half of my current friends list have placed an overlay…
Facebook’s French flags: an act of solidarity or Eurocentric bias?
On the evening of Friday 13th November my friends and I sat in a darkened bar hunched over a phone, pints abandoned, furiously trying to follow the barrage of tweets…
Notes from a year abroad in Paris
Having lived for a couple of weeks as an Erasmus student in the world’s most romantic, most visited, and most talked-about city, I feel I’ve already experienced a slice of…