What Challenges Face New Education Secretary Going Forward?
On the 6th of September 2022, Liz Truss was appointed UK Prime Minister, the day after she was elected as leader...
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University Students Struggling to Cope Against the Cost-of-Living Crisis
The cost-of-living crisis is a phrase that people across this country have become all too familiar with. We hear it...
Reflecting on Depp v Heard
It has been hard to avoid coverage of the Depp v Heard trial. Dominating social media channels, this theatrical case...
Fast-Stream Freeze Furthers Government’s “Anti-Civil Service Narrative”
University students and graduates will be unable to apply for the popular Civil Service fast-stream due to a “pause” by...
A night with Prince Andrew
Duncan Wheeler, Lecturer and Chair of Spanish Studies at the University of Leeds, recounts a weird and wild evening spent...
World Bipolar Day: Living Between Waves and Episodes
The first moment of healing was found when wandering in the outside world. Wondering what life was for, I was lost and emotionless. The rules and regulations were no more, the...
Exploring queer history through The Gryphon archive
Archives aren’t all dusty books and crumbling manuscripts -research into past issues of the Gryphon(including in its former life as...
“C’est le common sense”: Student Protests Take to the Streets of Montreal, Canada
In Canada, students face many of the same problems as they do in the UK: rising tuition fees, high rents,...
What the Treatment of Child Q Says About the Safety of Black Children in the UK
In December 2020, a 15-year-old Black schoolgirl in Hackney, referred to as Child Q, was removed from her mock exam...
Adultification Bias: the effect of racial prejudice on policing and beyond
A fifteen-year-old black schoolgirl, known only as Child Q, was strip-searched by police officers in 2020. The police were called...