Opinion Panel

Since I started University, Tuesdays have become my least favourite day of the week. On Tuesdays I am a victim of the heinous crime of having to waking up at 9 o’clock. I then have to make the arduous journey from my flat, up some of oxford road, negotiating a busy street, avoiding collisions with [...]

We’ve all heard the headlines; over 100,000 qualified applicants have missed out on university places in the summers of 2010 and 2011, that pupils from private and selective schools still dominate the most selective universities and perhaps most shockingly that there are more Afro-Caribbean male students at London Metropolitan University compared with the entirety of [...]

If you haven’t heard of KONY 2012, you’re probably not on Facebook or Twitter. This campaign is now officially the fastest growing social media event of all time. As of the morning of Friday 9th March, the original 30-minute documentary video had topped 70 million views, getting there a day quicker than Susan Boyle did. [...]

An ever-increasing number of people seem to feel disenfranchised by politics and, in particular, by politicians themselves. They are seen to be self-serving, untrustworthy and double-dealing, and it is not uncommon to hear people ask “What did we do to deserve this?” It is unfortunate that they never seem to look for an answer. One [...]

I have a dilemma; I am a student and I study creative writing and journalism, I only have a few weeks left on my course, what on earth am I going to do with this degree? How am I supposed to make a decent living? Every day, every single day, for the last three years [...]

There’s no denying music is important to social interaction. It’s something you can bond over with people or find refuge in when you feel let down by reality. Sharing your love of music with family and friends can only be a good thing. Unless they comment on every song you play, even if they can’t [...]

Living in London and finding myself rushing around at a speed of approximately 1000 miles per hour every day, I have lost all hope that it is ever possible to meet ‘someone’. My only free time is at the weekends during the course of which I am far too inebriated to remember my own name [...]

Many members of the Labour Party have walked with an extra spring in their step over the last few weeks – and we haven’t seen that in a while. The government’s NHS reforms have brought wide-spread cross-party damnation, as Cameron and Lansley undertake the inevitable painstaking u-turn whilst attempting to save face. For the Labour [...]

The build up to and eventually the appointment last week, of Professor Les Ebdon as Director of the Office of Fair Access (OFFA) dominated the news. And understandably so. Professor Ebdon, thanks to what David Willetts described as a “draconian framework of legislation” inherited from the previous government, will have the power to prevent universities [...]