Opinion Panel

The debate around the use of examinations for arts based subjects pops up this time every year then duly disappears just as the damned things themselves do; and this is half the problem. A sustained argument on the waste of time that are arts and humanities examinations can never be had due to the general [...]

This is a response to ‘Edward Cullen is a possessive, woman beating stalker’ Number one best-seller and phenomenon Fifty Shades of Grey has received mixed opinions especially with regards to feminism. I hold strong feminist views yet believe that this story affirms the ‘modern woman’ through main protagonist Anastasia Steele who refrains from succumbing to [...]

Before we start, I feel the need to confess that I am addicted to tea. Being British, I suppose it’s an inherent part of the culture, but I am never found without a flask of tea. By extension, I am not that keen on coffee. But that’s not because I come from a nation of [...]

I love animals. I really do. I’m a sucker for every cute kitten video and baby hedgehog GIF on the internet. Although I myself am not vegetarian, I barely eat meat and come from a family of vegetarians. I am staunchly against cosmetic animal testing, battery farming, and cruelty to animals in general. And yet [...]

Somewhere across the Tiber, white smoke heralded a new ascent to the Papal throne. Jorge Mario Bergoglio was elected as the first non-European Pope since the 8th century. And despite the general apathy with which European media report (or not) just about any religious affair, the Roman Catholic Church arouses some perennial curiosity, whether for [...]

This is a response to University Life… Or is it? By Bridget O’Toole This article idea came to me yesterday, after I read an article, got really, really angry and started bashing away on the keyboard, leaving a clever and witty response (as with all angry comments on the internet), everything was going so well…and [...]

A story about a human and a vampire falling in love was always going to be a hit story. Having an epic romance that is forbidden has always been a winning formula when it comes to fiction, Shakespeare had Romeo and Juliet whilst Emily Bronte had Wuthering Heights. But both Shakespeare and Bronte were able to create [...]

As Parliamentary elections loom and political violence escalates, Pakistan is on the verge of breaking point. If the coalition parties “win” re-election on May 11th, popular revolution will not be far behind. It was just two years ago that Tunisians, Egyptians, Libyans, Syrians, and various other Arab populations began to rise up against their authoritarian [...]

Everything evolves. Humans do, otherwise we’d still be dragging our knuckles along the ground and living in caves. Technology does, or else tweeting would just be something that birds did, and writing this article would have taken a lot longer by hand. And one of the most important things in our day-to-day existence has evolved [...]

If there was ever a valuable lesson to come out of the second-season finale of Sherlock, it was that you can’t believe what you read in the newspaper. Not 100%, anyway. The internet is a wonderful thing, but it has caused a degradation of reliability in the press. As a result the media ends up [...]