Ben Baruch

Chances are, you’ve heard the term snowflake creep into political commentary in recent months. Much like political correctness, it’s a term invented and used mainly by people on the right to disparagingly refer mainly to people on the left. Basically, a snowflake is someone who’s easily offended or overly...

In early March, the government announced the introduction of compulsory sex education in all primary and secondary schools, representing significant progress towards an increasingly effective and comprehensive sex education system in this country. However, this does not account for the lack of sex education experienced by those who have...

Theresa May has gone to the country asking for a mandate. With Brexit dominating debate, she has argued that a stronger Tory government will offer stability in negotiations with Europe. But it’s easy to forget that there are other issues which the government must be held accountable for. May’s...

Disclaimer: I love my mum. Another year, another Mother’s Day, and another excuse to post photos of yourself as a chubby baby being held by your Mum, telling all of Instagram* and Facebook how much you love her, despite the very real possibility that she wouldn’t know how to...

We’ve all fantasised about semesters abroad, visions of ourselves guzzling Weißbier in Germany or shimmying along a beach in Spain – oh, the opportunities are endless. Sitting in our drab rooms (unless you live in a Sweet Spot house, of course) in one of the many glamorous streets of...

Winston Churchill famously said that democracy is the worst form of government, except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time. And so it proved with the SU elections. With a little under 8000 votes cast in this year’s elections, a turnout of just 23.2%,...

Doing a sociolinguistics module last semester made me well aware of the power of language. We use the words we do to construct our own identities, and therefore language contributes to the shaping of society. This means that it can be used in harmful ways. Yet the beauty of...