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Direct Democracy is often held up as the pinnacle of representative decision-making. If we live in a society where everybody’s voice counts, then we’re meant to have it truly made. The University of Nottingham’s Student Union (UoN SU) seems to have taken this on board, holding referendums on issues...

I am here to present the unpopular opinion that caffeine, the world’s most popular drug, is doing you more harm than good. Students chug their way through gallons of the stuff in futile attempts to stay alert through the next page of quantum mechanics or macroeconomics. We drink so...

It is easy to argue that the UK, as a whole, is fundamentally elitist. The economy’s top professions are dominated by Oxbridge graduates and privately-educated individuals. But does this elitism originate in British universities? There has been speculation that private school applicants are favoured by the UK’s elite institutions....

“Humanity needs to weep, and this is the time to weep,” declared Pope Francis at a World War I commemoration service last week. He described how “even today, after the second failure of another world war, perhaps one can speak of a third war, one fought piecemeal, with crimes,...

Yes or No? It’s been the question on every Englishman and Scotsman’s lips these past few weeks. I am talking about the minority campaign that has become a mainstream debate. It has inspired impassioned arguments, mobilised a united scurry of Westminster politicians, even managed to piss off the Spanish...

I was reading some stale and crusted old newspapers and magazines whilst on a Great British holiday the other week (and yes it was raining as you suspected). An article in the Guardian about a new indie duo caught my eye. Not because I thought listening to their music...

I’m sorry, but I’m taking a stand. I have categorically, absolutely, wholeheartedly had enough of so called ‘voluntourism’. Like many a modern day phenomena, it expresses itself through social media, and this is where one becomes alerted to the mass exodus each summer of university undergraduates on such stints....