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Screw the jargon, let’s talk about our problems: a response to the Enhancement-led Institutional Review

Professor Tina Harrison, Assistant Principal Academic Standards and Quality Assurance, was this morning “delighted to report that the quality of the student experience at Edinburgh has been recognised by the…

Air strikes in Syria would be ineffective

Da’esh’s attack on Paris would understandably lead one to the reactionary retaliation of conventional military strikes. Big and colourful explosions in Syrian towns on the 6pm news and accompanying headlines…

EUSA’s ‘ChangeEUSA’ survey will change nothing

EUSA have had a decent semester, free sanitary products and the establishment of a Wellbeing Fund cannot be argued with when it comes to successes, however the problem of a…

Why Not’s ‘Chav Night’ is a masquerade of class privilege

Picture the scene: a popular Edinburgh nightclub hosts a ‘Fag Night’, with a £100 monetary prize for whoever dresses as the best ‘gay’. Or this, a ‘Thug Night’ which encourages…

Myanmar result is a tentative move towards democracy

In what has been hailed by many onlookers as an historic breakthrough, the recent general election in Myanmar saw Aung San Suu Kyi’s NLD (National League for Democracy) party win…

Air strikes in Syria would be a misguided response

Da’esh’s attack on Paris would understandably lead one to the reactionary retaliation of conventional military strikes. Big and colourful explosions in Syrian towns on the 6pm news and accompanying headlines…

Hollande’s war on ISIS will change how history remembers him

“France is at war” This was how President Hollande started the speech of his political career. With France reeling from the worse attack on metropolitan French soil since the Second…

Tricolour Facebook profiles do little to help anyone

KONY 2012. Pride 2015. The French flag overlay for Paris. I’ve felt uncomfortable about this Facebook trend for years. It’s not that I think it’s a harmful gesture, but what…