Domestic Violence
Just because we do not witness the extremities of domestic violence in the private space does not mean it is not there. What happens behind closed doors should be a…
Nick Clegg criticised by NUS over unpaid interns
The Vice-President of the NUS has criticised Nick Clegg for allowing members of his party to recruit unpaid interns despite his pledge to abolish unpaid placements. In his pledge the…
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…
An argument for pragmatism
Anyone who hasn’t been living under a rock for the past two months will have been aware of the students march in London last Wednesday. It is of course a…
Bonfire tradition leaves a sour taste
I worry that there is something a bit masochistic in the first question that I asked friends who attended the Lewes Bonfire night – ‘Did you see David Cameron and…
The Lib Dems have sold out? It's a myth
Reading last week’s issue of The Badger it would have seemed to any fair minded person, that Nick Clegg was about to turn up at your door with a cheeky…
Are the Liberal Democrats dead in the water?
I registered my support for a political party for the first time just months after my sixteenth birthday, and I still remember it as though it was yesterday. Just a…
“Misleading, Incomplete and Regressive": the televised election debates
At the time of writing, the final televised election debate has just ended. The previous two debates were watched by 9.4 million and just over 4 million respectively, and we…
Zimbabwe: another forgotten nation?
Three months after a power-sharing agreement between Zimbabwe’s key parties was signed, the stories of violent human rights abuses and political oppression have died down. Yet the situation is still…