The Big Debate: Should the House of Lords be abolished?
Yes The House of Lords is the UK’s unelected second chamber. Before any legislation can become law in the UK it must be approved by the Lords, even if it…
The Boris Johnson factor
Why does Boris Johnson receive special treatment? The sight of a young boy flattened by Johnson during a game of touch rugby has recently gone viral. The collision occurred on…
Evolution and the ‘Bible Belt’: the US presidential election
Are we really just a 6000-year-old race? The evidence piling against this idea is getting higher and higher by the decade, yet many key political and social figures in North…
The Big Debate: Should grammar schools be abolished?
Yes Should grammar schools be exterminated or expanded? EXTERMINATE! When I’m elected Prime Minister, on the biggest landslide result the nation has ever seen in the year 2040, the first…
Jeremy Corbyn shot himself in the foot over Trident
The Labour conference this year was something of a surreal experience for me, having grown up in the New Labour years of perfectly crafted ‘managerial-like’ conference speeches, full of buzzwords…
The Big Debate: Is the British monarchy a viable institution in the 21st century?
Yes As Queen Elizabeth II’s reign surpasses that of her great-grandmother Queen Victoria, it seems that anti-monarchist feeling has reached fever pitch. Yet here I will highlight the array of…
Why students should strike for free education
#StudentStrike: WTF is going on? On the 10th of September the National Executive Council (NEC) of the National Union of Students (NUS), which represents around seven million students nationally, including…
The Labour leadership election: A new hope for democracy?
A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away… It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from a not so hidden base (Islington North) have won…
Jeremy Corbyn leaves door open for possible pact with Caroline Lucas
Scroll down for our interview with Jeremy Corbyn. Jeremy Corbyn has left open the possibility of an electoral pact with Green MP Caroline Lucas. When asked by The Badger if…
Why we need online voting
In the run up to this year’s general election there has been much talk about how to encourage young people to vote. Campaigns like Bite the Ballot have staged online…
US election: It's the grassroots, stupid
Gabriel Raeburn Think back to the week before the American election. According to Gallup, Republican Mitt Romney held a five percentage point lead over President Obama. Romney also had twice…
Liberal students and 'Tory scum'
Tom Foster Sussex students are often as liberal as Brighton is, and I don’t think anyone can doubt these liberal dispositions incline us to bear left in the political spectrum.…
Political Highlights
The American Election: Last Tuesday saw the re-election of the incumbent President of the United States, Barack Obama. Despite gaining 100 more electoral college votes than his competitor Mitt Romney,…
U.S. election at East Slope Bar
Election night on 6 November saw scores of Sussex students on campus and across Brighton pulling all-nighters to witness an historic Presidential election, which ended in an Obama victory. Students…
Political Highlights
Party conference season swept the nation last week – although it was rather more sober than most students may imagine a party to be. Satirical Tweets from the week: @David_Scameron…
The Cult of Charisma
Dear Badger, During a recent political discussion with a friend of mine, we began comparing the two leaders of the dominant political parties. We share a mutual scepticism of the…
Why I’m glad that abortion is not a political issue
I’m 21 years old, in my second year of university and I like to think that I have my whole life ahead of me. I’m also in a long-term, sexually…
The farce of the Republican primaries
Every four years an event occurs that costs hideous sums of money, lasts much longer it should, and invades the news with touch-screen diagrams and multiple correspondents. The performances are…
The disappointments of Obama’s presidency
On 20 January 2009, in front of a worldwide audience of billions, Barack Obama was sworn in as the 44th president of the United States of America. Globally, there was…
Is progressive politics in Britain dead?
There is no denying that centre-left politics has moved to the right in the last twenty years. It is different from what it once was, but has it retained the…