Opinion Panel

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 [...]

Imagine lying in your room next to your expensive flat-screen television. You have your own private en-suite bathroom, mini fridge, and modern furniture. Each room has a window overlooking 75 acres of forestry. You can cook (or be taught how to!) in a high-end kitchen or just relax on sofas in the communal lounge. There [...]

Over 3,000 vocational courses are to be cut from schools. Why? Because schools have been offering them to boost their league tables! Regardless of whether these courses give students any skills or advantages, they are being offered and created for the wrong reasons. So even if they are beneficial for students, they are being scrapped. [...]

Here’s a fantastic statistic for you. At Sainsburys, you can buy five custard donuts for sixty pence. Five donuts. Five. For sixty pence. That’s a grand total of 12 pence per donut. Just one of these five donuts contains 234 calories, which, as a woman, is more than a tenth of my daily calorie allowance. [...]

How much would you pay for the job you want? Ten thousand pounds? Twenty thousand? How about seventy thousand? That’s how much I estimate it will have cost me to change career direction, including the two years’ salary I will have given up in order to get some relevant experience on my CV (mostly unpaid [...]

Now don’t get me wrong, I was fully aware when I signed up for this French degree that I was going to be spending a year abroad in France, with people who speak it all the time, think in it, dream in it, and have done since it was their first word, but now it’s [...]