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Exam Hall

Being flexible with admissions damages Universities

Admitting students with lower grades is problematic for both their University and peers, argues Mary O’Connor.

Banksy

Should Banksy’s art work be sold?

‘Slave Labour’ stolen away from the artist’s intentions and the public to which he gave it, argues Tristan Grove

kindle

Intellectual snobbery in the book world

E-readers are breeding a generation of bookworms who only read what they actually enjoy, says Jack Prescott

Job Centre

‘After years of unemployment jokes, the joke is coming true’

It’s easy for graduates to feel ‘alone in a job market seemingly designed to never actually employ you,’ writes Kevin Fullerton

Nikita Khrushchev, Valentina Tereshkova, Pavel Popovich and Yury Gagarin

Communism was good for women

50 years after the first woman in space, Florence Scordoulis argues the Soviet Regime may have been good for gender equality

Cannabis

Is alcohol more harmful than cannabis?

We binge on alcohol, yet condemn drug use, argues Zoe Mumba

Cocaine

Should Class A drugs be legalised?

Is the solution education or legislation?

Graduation

Leaving university: a BA bereavement

Many graduates experience ‘a sense of emptiness, an absence of purpose,’ writes Josh Boswell

Gavel

Legal aid cuts will undermine justice

‘Justice is a luxury that we can no longer afford’ writes Tom Arnull, as Citizens’ Advice Bureau funding is slashed

food

Why do we Instagram food?

Lauren Cope comments on our tendency to share every detail of our lives via social media, including that of food

EDL

Media is choosing entertainment over core responsibilities

Keumars Afifi-Sabet argues that their can be negative consequences to the hysterical reaction of the media to the Woolwich incident.

microphone

Should a students’ union allow fascists a platform?

Samuel Osborne questions whether a No Platform policy is beneficial or just restrictive

SONY DSC

Students must keep party politics alive

There are alternatives to the three major parties – and it is up to students to keep them going

Abbot

‘A crisis of masculinity’

Hugo Schmidt discusses Diane Abbott’s ideas about a ‘crisis of masculinity’ in Britain