Maddy Fry

On 4th May the EU will be voting on legislation which, if it passes, would give broadband providers the right to give ISP subscribers access to the internet in the form of packages akin to those offered on television by companies like Sky. Consumers would therefore only be able to access certain sites, with those outside of the package deal being blocked from view.

by Maddy Fry

“The prospectus was all lies
And you’ve forgotten to revise,
But at least you didn’t go to UCL.”

Amateur Transplants, ‘Always Look on the Bright Side of Life.’

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By Nodd Gooding

It’s Saturday night, and students are filing into The Rocket to take advantage of their ‘wonderful’ deal whereby much of the produce will only cost £1: ‘Quids Night’.
Snakebites are flowing, double shots are ordered as standard and the drunken slurs of a-hundred or so people can be heard shouting so loudly that no matter how metaphorically it was meant by the Kings of Leon, you are now convinced that your Sex actually is On Fire.

Unfortunately, on the night of Saturday 6th and Sunday 7th of December last year, there was a darker side to all this joviality. At approximately 1:55am, David, a well-liked former member of staff at The Rocket, was left facially scarred and blinded in one eye by an attacker wielding glass.

By Nodd Gooding

So, your parents are coming to visit, and have offered to take you out for a nice London meal – all you have to do is choose where. It is pretty hard to go wrong with most restaurants around the Covent Garden area – crammed as it is with every cuisine from tapas to sushi. However, if you want a more personal touch without the ‘chain’ label, it is hard to go wrong with Bedford and Strand.

by Patrick Cox
If ‘Middle Eastern Art Forms’ was asked as a category on the game show ‘Family Fortunes’, it would be more than likely that the highest scoring word would be “literature”, with such authors, both ancient and modern, as Rumi, Ahmed Shawqi and Hafez well known in the literary world. Following closely behind would doubtless be “music”, succeeded perhaps by “calligraphy” and possibly “ceramic art” after that. One answering “modern art” would perchance score a mere few points, if any at all, and for a good reason. An outsiders view of the Middle East is skewered by news reports of oppressive regimes, crackdowns on personal expressions and sexist societies were women are seen as little more that mothers and housewives.