Ben Baruch

Getting your hands on a Crisis or Ocean ticket in Nottingham can often be harder than getting a first in your degree. It’s a regular mission we all face; attempting to go on a night out but being forced to turn up at a ridiculously early time to queue....

After a close call in the summer, the NUS needs to show students it is getting its act together. Confession time. In the referendum on whether the University of Nottingham should disaffiliate from the National Union of Students, I voted leave; but no, I voted remain on June 23rd...

It’s the smell that hits you first. A stale petrol-ly stench of booze and sweat. The musk of 1000 miserable nights spent flapping your pastey limbs in some bizarre, humiliating mating ritual. Beneath that pungent aroma is the heady smells of sick and sadness. A stinking tribute to human...

The end of the story or a new chapter: what next for UKIP? The moustache probably gave it away. In one of the more bizarre and quite frankly traumatic stories after Brexit, the acceptance Nigel Farage displayed when a dead ferret proceeded to curl up on his top lip...

Possibly the most beloved British television show, The Great British Bake Off, is crumbling down, as political manoeuvres and greed threaten the essence of what makes it great. Love Productions, the Bake Off producers, have sold the show to Channel 4 for £25 million a season. The offer is...

The past year has been disastrous for Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn. Characterized by disputes and disunity, the role of Labour leader has been tougher than Corbyn could have ever imagined. In late June the Labour leader emphatically lost a vote of confidence with a 172-40 vote, triggering this leadership...

Jeremy Corbyn isn’t unelectable. The Labour Party is. On the basis of the last three months or so, since the referendum result, nobody in their right mind would want the Labour Party to be in charge of running the country. They have been a party riddled with disunity. MPs...