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    Category: Letters

    Letters · Opinion

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    The Cult of Charisma

    • October 8, 2012

    Dear Badger, During a recent political discussion with a friend of mine, we began comparing the two leaders of the dominant political parties. We share a mutual scepticism of the current government’s straight-laced frontman David[...]

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    The North-South Divide

    • October 8, 2012

    Dear Badger, When referring to the English North-South divide, we normally refer to the cultural and economic differences between the two sides. Of course, some are skin-deep whilst others are not. This is regularly highlighted[...]

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    A fresh new perspective

    • October 8, 2012

    Dear Badger, I recently helped out a friend, who is building a straw bale house in his back garden, with a large group of enthusiastic friends who were up for a new experience. We used[...]

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    Ban on Israeli Goods

    • October 8, 2012

    Dear Badger, Ever since starting here at Sussex I couldn’t help but notice the absence of certain products like Coca-Cola and Pineapples in our union shops and the campus co-op. It never occurred to me that it[...]

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    Cuts to USSU’s block grant sets dangerous precedent

    • June 7, 2010

    The reduction in USSU’s block grant from the university is a bitter pill to swallow. It should not be taken lightly and it matters to anyone who uses the bars and shops, all that rely[...]

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    The crisis at Middlesex University

    • June 7, 2010

    Last Friday I went to London to help defend a Westminster University student who was summoned to a disciplinary panel over his alleged role in a March occupation. It’s a familiar situation for Sussex students,[...]

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    Staff and students strike accord

    • June 7, 2010

    It shouldn’t surprise me that students can be selfish people, and yet, on Wednesday, I was amazed at how many students strolled right past the picket lines. Some of them even refused to acknowledge the[...]

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    Farthing gets it wrong on tuition fees

    • June 7, 2010

    As the Badger reports this week, Vice-Chancellor Michael Farthing has argued that in order for universities to maintain high standards of education, the tuition fee cap- which currently stands at £3,240 a year- must increase[...]

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    Blame games and volcanic ash: who’s fault?

    • June 7, 2010

    As the ash cloud billowed from the spewing volcano in Iceland the accusations and recriminations over who was to blame were sure to follow, but nobody’s to blame for this act of God. Or are[...]

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    Want a fairer education system?

    • June 7, 2010

    The most hotly contested election of the millennium is now only a couple of policy-scrutinising weeks away. Gord, Dave and Nick are primed, scrubbed and ready to bombard us with the best punchlines, soundbites and[...]

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