Earlier this month saw the temporary closure of online magazine ‘UniLad’ – the self-proclaimed ‘number one university student lad’s mag and guide to getting laid’. The site was pulled down following the widespread condemnation of an article called ‘Sexual Mathematics’, which included this apparently hilarious remark: ‘If the girl you’ve taken for a drink… ‘won’t [...]

February 20th, 2012 Read more

With male suicide rates at three times that of female rates in the UK, Epigram questions the wisdom of men suffering in silence. Buzz Aldrin walked on the moon. Stan Collymore scored 251 goals in an 11-year professional football career. Harrison Ford played Indiana Jones and Han Solo, grossing over $5bn of film revenues during [...]

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In the first partnership of this kind, France Telecom-owned Orange has struck an agreement with the Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit organisation that operates Wikipedia, to make the encyclopaedia available, free of data charges, to millions of mobile browsers across Africa and the Middle East (AMEA). Marc Rennard, the Group executive Vice President for Africa, Middle [...]

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Students all over the country will be ‘down and out’ and sleeping rough this month to demonstrate that asylum seekers are still human and still here. From the 20th February, in collaboration with a campaign known as ‘Still Human Still Here’ student led groups across the country and numerous national organisations will be holding an [...]

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Who knows much about Belarus? Perhaps some people could place it on a map; sandwiched between Russia, Ukraine, Poland, Lithuania and Latvia, a tiny country with a population of only 9.49 million. Others, possibly, are aware that its capital city is Minsk. But aside from these basic facts, we hear nothing of Belarus on the [...]

February 20th, 2012 Read more

This Tuesday saw a home grown version of popular game show Take Me Out spring up in our very own Winston Theatre. Organised by third-year History student Alice Hodgson, the show saw a total of 23 ‘sexy single sluts’ vying for the attention of seven of the University’s ‘finest male talent’. With said talents ranging [...]

February 10th, 2012 Read more

The photo gallery below documents four buildings in Bristol that have been left abandoned over the last few decades. In order of appearance: The Grosvenor Hotel: Dubbed the city’s ‘Hotel from Hell’ by Bristol 24-7 magazine, this building was once a backdrop on Chris Petit’s classic 1979 film Radio On. Left abandoned for around 15 years, [...]

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