English and French student Stephanie Green is currently doing an internship with the charity EURORDIS – Rare Diseases Europe in Paris. In time for Rare Disease Day 2018, she had the opportunity to speak to […]
University to offer therapy porcupines to students
Leeds University is to offer therapy porcupines for students, in an apparent wellbeing exercise, designed to ease student’s stress. Prickly creatures not known for their affection, University administrators have arranged for the hedgehog-type creatures to […]
Shock as students realise posting photos of revision on social media has no effect on overall exam grade
As exam season ends and results are released, Leeds students are finding themselves shocked and upset as their grades fall short of their expectations. A whopping majority of the student body has found itself surprised, […]
Fresher spends loan on Depop in attempt to look ‘different’: ends up looking like everyone else
A student at Leeds University has reportedly spent all of her student loan on the clothing app ‘Depop’, in a bid to look ‘unique’ and ‘different’. She has since expressed regret at the fact that […]
White male activist group demand safe spaces
Reports of white men wanting safe spaces are on the rise. In the last year studies suggest that 73% of white, heterosexual cis-gender men take offense at being called privileged and demand safe spaces to […]
LUU resolution to ban vaping on campus
A resolution has been put forward to ban vaping on campus following numerous complaints of damage to the student populaces reputation as ‘edgy Leeds’. Despite the published health benefits of switching the smoke to the […]
New Crispys to open in the Union
An anonymous source has said told the Pigeon that a new franchise of Crispys will be opening in the Union sometime late next year, 2018. The much beloved greasy takeaway on the corner of Woodhouse […]
Theroux and Attenborough to join forces for series on Trump, Putin, Kim and others
Louis Theroux and David Attenborough will be joining forces in the exhilarating new series, ‘Degeneration in one Generation’, The Pigeon is excited to announce. The much anticipated collaboration from Britain’s most cherished documenters will take […]
Female sex robot develops sentience, become feminist
A multimillion pound pilot sex robot experiment by the Dartmouth University may soon be halted indefinitely due to robots developing sentience and political thought. The University is at the forefront of what people stated as, […]
Donald Trump to release self-help book “The Art of the Heal”
In a recent press release the President of the Free World Donald Trump has announced he will be publishing a “self-help” and “spiritual healing” book to give his followers an insight to his views on […]
Theresa May turns to actual plants for Brexit guidance
The Prime Minister today has announced that she has hired a new set of advisers for Brexit negotiations, plants. Actual plants. With leaves. Seemingly another step in the plan to move away from ‘the experts’ […]
Exclusive: Laidlaw Library to focus on new technology ‘books’
Laidlaw’s Head Librarian Hermione Wormwood today announced a brand-new initiative to pivot towards ‘books’ as the centre of the institution. Books are, according to Wormwood, a form of information in a printed context, that cannot […]