Student Media and Union Censorship
Editor-Elect Philippa Skett ponders the relationship between student publications and free speech
Something important and totally worth reading all the way through
Sometimes, there are really busy weeks, and sometimes there are quiet weeks.
Of Elections and Allowances and original titles
Over the last few months Felix has broken two stories about Union Club, Society and Project election mismanagement.
Does Union Council need a fresh coat of paint?
This week saw another session of Union Council, the body of elected representatives that create and approve policies that shape the views and the functionality of the Union. The week saw another inquorate session of Council, during which the body was unable to vote effectively on papers...
Confessions of a GTA: Part 14
Are GTAs working hard or hardly working?
Thoughts on the Imperial Elections
I must have manifestos on the brain because after three weeks writing about a certain famous Communist one, I turn to our own election manifestos. Voting has occasioned the re-emergence of some long dormant reflections, recounted here.
Hating headlines that tell you how to feel
There’s something strange about the way we treat emotions; they have become products to be bought and sold. It was crazy American Pentecostal Christianity that first got me thinking about this.
Adonis Georgiadis comes to Imperial. Great…
This Sunday, Adonis Georgiadis will be the main guest in the final event of the “Greek Presidency in London” initiative held at Imperial, and will serve as representative of the Greek government.
Oh, what’s wrong with the world today?
It used to be that the world was an absolutely awful place. People were starving left and right in all those countries to the South, the hole in the ozone layer was going to kill us all, there was no more oil left, grubby foreigners were going to steal all
Hating headlines that tell you how to feel
Old people have always had it in for BBC3. Unlike the sleepy old BBC4, home of gentle documentaries presented by the lovely Lucy Worsley, BBC3 is an overactive puppy, full of rebellion and naïve excitement that spends most of its spare time engaged in an act of passion with the
Tell Me it’s O-Kaye
The most controversial of next year’s sabbatical officers is, no doubt, Chris Kaye. In an online media outlet that may never be named, we are told that the incoming Deputy President (Welfare) ran on a platform of a scaled back and cost-effective union, but is that really what we voted for?
Manifesto: Place in Marxist Thought
To round up my three weeks of commentary on the Manifesto, I shall try and place it in Marxist thought. I was originally going to write a short critique of Marxist thought but it quickly grew to an unreadable length and so I have settled for this slightly less ambitious task.