Wednesday 29th May 2013. The day that Oxford University English professor Simon Horobin became a Judas to English Grammar Nazis all over the world. The day that he dared to say, at The Telegraph Hay Literary Festival no less, that it wouldn’t be sacrilegious to have one standardized spelling for the three […]

So, clearly 2013 was the year to come out. I am happy that celebrities such as Tom Daley feel secure enough to publicly declare their sexual preferences. However, I can’t help but be a little cynical. Why are we so concerned with labelling our sexuality and making it so known […]

Anyone that’s ever ridden a skateboard will know that it’s only really that fun when you know your way around the board. Ollies and Kickflips are all well and good when you can land them, but, if you can’t seem to get them down then all a skateboard really becomes […]

Yesterday, thousands of visitors flooded to the MetLife stadium in New Jersey for Super Bowl XLVIII. Most people went there to show their support and to cheer on their favourite team. However, tragically there were also thousands of people fleeting there for something entirely different. What people are naive about, […]

Recent government legislation has confirmed another coalition-enforced blow to higher education. Currently, any student who has purchased a loan post-1990 faces further monetary concerns and debts after they leave university. As we all know too well, an atypical UK or EU undergraduate who commenced their studies in 2012 will end […]

The international community continues to discuss the Ukrainian political crisis that started in November 2013. Protests in response to a government decision to suspend the integration process with the European Union escalated into violent clashes between radical opposition members and law enforcement officials in January, when the Verkhovna Rada adopted […]

We have come to the end of January. For most of us, January connotes a month of healthy eating and exercise; of dealing with the dreaded post-turkey coma; and one in which we resolve to make ourselves better. This month, political parties have begun their journey to elections, altering their […]

Late last month, the High Court of Australia overturned legislation allowing same-sex marriages in the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) adopted by a regional parliament in October 2013. The Court ruled that a recent local law legalizing same-sex marriage was inconsistent with federal laws which specified in 2004 that marriage was […]