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So, how did the band meet?
What have Hurts, Delphic, Everything Everything, Gomez, Faithless, Elbow, Stephen Fretwell and Long-View got in common? Well, amongst a whole host of bands, they either met, or had members, who studied...
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The Thicke of It
You would have to have been on a self imposed media blackout to miss the furore over Robin Thicke’s Blurred Lines. A quick google will throw up national newspaper articles, blog posts from those...
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This shit wouldn’t happen at Hogwarts!
Wednesday brought with it #demo2012 – the latest in a long line of hashtag adorned mass student demonstrations organised by the National Union of Students. Around 10,000 students marched through the...
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Not even close, not even a little bit, not even at all: or why men aren’t a...
In 2013, the then Universities Minister, David Willetts, called for white working class boys to be “treated like an ethnic minority” when it came to widening participation initiatives in universities....
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Oh we weren’t supposed to be! We learnt too much at school…
This is not a sob story. I don’t have anything to feel sorry for myself about. I love my job and my career to date and my education has been transformative at each stage of my life. But it is anger....
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I don’t give a fuck that you don’t give a fuck about marriage
So today, people go to the polls in Ireland to decide if same sex couples can get married. The reactions on Facebook are predictable. Long emotive blog posts about why people should vote YES, but also...
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From Russia with Love
I’ve seen a whole host of outrage on my newsfeed this weekend about Russia’s placing in the Eurovision Song Contest from friends in the UK and Western Europe. When it looked like they might win, there...
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My love letter to the EU
My heart bursts with pride about our National Health System, and so does yours. The Save our NHS campaigns up and down the country aren’t driven by statistics and analytics. We know the NHS has its...
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