• A copy of Chaucer's 'The Canterbury Tales' alongside a cup of tea

    Reclaiming our year 2 module ‘Chaucer and his Contemporaries’ back from news outlets

    Amelia Cropley In early October, the Daily Mail took to their Sunday edition Mail on Sunday, to write about one of our university’s second year English modules, ‘Chaucer and his Contemporaries’. The Mail on Sunday surprisingly requested information using Freedom of Information laws and found it necessary to speak...
  • Times have changed, why not our words?

    I must start with a confession. Cardiff Metropolitan University has recently chosen to ban words they deemed politically incorrect. The list includes words ‘manpower’, and ‘sportsmanship’. On first reading, I found myself rarely, and rather worryingly, agreeing with the Daily Mail, who branded the decision as ridiculous. I couldn’t...