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Most of you will, by now, have seen the footage and extensive media coverage of the recent chauvinistic chants led by Week One reps. You will also, as I have, read the Impact Comment article criticising the resulting disciplinary measures as “too harsh”. As the person who filmed the...

The NUS National Executive Committee (NEC) recently rejected a motion calling for the NUS to condemn ISIS. Absurd as this seems, it is not as simple as the press headlines make out. On reading that the NEC had voted against condemning ISIS, I was initially inclined to agree with...

The Conservatives have recently announced plans to scrap the Human Rights Act, and could leave the European Convention of Human Rights (ECHR) in an attempt to give Parliament and British courts more powers over our human rights. This move would ostensibly also stop British laws from being overruled by...

Gamergate, in the moral and ethical sense, is in fact a facade for a campaign driven by misogynist men in the gaming world. Twenty-four year old Eron Gjoni, member of the gaming world, posted on his blog accusations of an affair his ex-girlfriend, Zoe Quinn, had allegedly had with another gaming...

Feminism has been gaining more and more prominence in mainstream media due to the success of projects such as Laura Bates’s Everyday Sexism and the popularisation of feminist writers like Caitlin Moran. Despite this, the movement towards equality seems to be constantly hindered by incidents of lad culture, most...

Recently, a video surfaced of a small number of mostly faceless people chanting sexual and explicit phrases that could be construed by some as misogynistic. Publications including Impact, the Guardian and the Daily Mail have published articles on the subject, giving rise to a debate about lad culture on...

It’s the buildup to the 2015 general election and Big Questions are beginning to fly around. For me, one which particularly needs answering is this – why on earth has Nigel Farage, the leader of UKIP, been given a place to speak at the televised leaders debates before next...