Closing the pay gap is in the limelight but what we need is reflection
Ladies, we’ve been liberated from our rubber gloves. Put down your feather dusters because we’ve got Equal Pay Day, MeToo and TimesUp all under our belt in the short space…
The gender pay gap should be the stuff of history lessons
As a working woman in the 1960’s, my grandmother was paid significantly less than her male counterparts. But it wasn’t a problem for her as she would be expected to…
A love letter to the girl who chokeheld me
I don’t know if anyone who reads my column has noticed, but I’m a pretty big fan of feminism. After a couple of glasses of wine, I will talk about…
Anti-racist, anti-facist, anti-Semite? Millennials have forgotten the Holocaust
In one of the most disgusting cases of antisemitism we have seen in recent years, Mireille Knoll, an 85-year old French Holocaust survivor, was stabbed 11 times, then burned to…
Philsoc and a discriminatory discussion: The Inside Story
Wow. On Saturday, I wrote an article, published on The Broad, highlighting the discriminatory nature of the University of Edinburgh Philosophy Society’s event, ‘Philosophy discussion on Feminism (for Women and non-binary folk)’….
Discrimination on campus: Men barred from Philosophy Society event
UPDATE: The University of Edinburgh’s Philosophy Society have now distanced themselves from the event. It is still going ahead, however, it will no longer be hosted by the Philosophy Society…
Drag culture or cultural appropriation?
Drag culture has long been a site for pushing boundaries and shocking society. From Divine eating dog shit to, well, pretty much every moment of RuPaul’s career, drag queens have…
Triangular diplomacy or playground talk?
What does a 180 turn in North Korean diplomacy really mean? Over the last few months, we have seen Kim Jong Un display a willingness to open up to the…
Government can’t change the censorious attitude on campus
The joint committee on human rights (JCHR), a select committee of the Commons and the Lords chaired by Harriet Harman, have recently been considering the issue of free speech at…
Why do we romanticise child bereavement?
Legal & General, a mainstream insurance firm, has recently run a series of ads focusing on life insurance. I encountered my first such ad walking down the street to Aldi,…
There’s nowhere to hide from Cambridge Analytica, nowhere at all
It’s been a tough few years for globalists. At an exponential rate, all that they heralded as vessels to bring us closer together – free trade, open borders, the future…
The future of profit lies in its purpose
What if I told you that the word ‘profit’, long associated with cigar smoke and Wall Street, is becoming the currency of positive change? At first, this might seem paradoxical,…
13 Reasons Why Not
When the first season of ‘13 Reasons Why’ was released on Netflix, it became one of those shows that was more obligation than choice. Everyone had binged it, everyone was…
Does history of art have a place in primary school classrooms?
Art is elitist. The history of art is elitist. But the internet is changing all that: art is accessible to everyone now. Except that it isn’t. Even considering the Ai…
Tory response to Skripal poisoning is an own goal
The UK’s news on the poisoning of Sergei Skripal has been rife with inflammatory and miscalculated political statements. Deftly written and well argued, yes, but my fellow Broad columnist Emil…
We could all do with a Politics class (or twenty)
Politics is a subject that causes social divide, mass-speculation and outright uncertainty. As we navigate through a muddy political path in the UK – queue Brexit – it seems necessary…
Sex and the City for president
As Carrie Bradshaw once said, ‘The universe may not always play fair, but at least it’s got a hell of a sense of humour.’ On this week’s episode of ‘Keeping…
Corbyn’s silence on Russia shows why he’s unfit for No. 10
The ‘unlawful use of force by the Russian state against the United Kingdom’ is what Theresa May called the attempted murder of former Russian agent Sergei Skripal. That’s about as…
Is Bieber’s ‘Despacito’ the theme tune of cultural appropriation?
Love it or hate it, you know it. The song ‘Despacito’ was played non-stop for an entire summer, shooting to number one in every Latin billboard. However, as with the…
Opt-out organ donations
You know a policy is a corker if you agree with Jeremy Hunt on it. After all, the man has continuously ran the NHS into the ground since he was…
Let’s slim down media criticism of the female body
Do I hear a groan? The sun is sort-of out and bikini season is suddenly a reality. Unfortunately, we girls can no longer swaddle our insecurities in knitwear while dunking…
If marriage is a construct, I don’t want to be a construction worker
Marriage is steadily on the decline. While many articles have lamented the breakdown of this ancient establishment, there are a lot of practical factors behind the fall in marriages in…
Vince Cable’s speech has revealed his anti-democratic bigotry
The Liberal Democrats are currently polling at 7%. They have been languishing around this level for some time and, despite rebranding themselves as some sort of Remain resistance, have yet…
Are millennials hypersensitive puritans?
Generation Y. Snowflakes. Millennials. Call them what you want. Our generation is quickly becoming the largest focus of debate and analysis in contemporary discussion since the Free Love generation of…
Borders underpin international order
Last week my fellow columnist Lucy Hodgeon wrote a piece on whether borders have been made redundant by globalisation. It was original, thought-provoking and brilliantly written. I categorically disagree with it….
A Note from the Managing Director
Welcome to The Broad - a tabula rasa for student journalism.
For many of us, myself included, we’re half-starved for well-written opinion among the swathes of online commentary among universities. Trashy, often unedited writing is published minute by minute. It seems where there is wifi, opinion is broadcast. So, here at The Broad we’ve decided to take a step back, a deep breath and focus. We have talent spotted and welcomed writers to the team, who have found a new home in the very collaborative environment created by our editors. Between writer and editor, we are hoping to challenge the current view of what it is to be a student journalist. We’re putting the way we feel about the world into words with a fresh take. Our entirely free online content is by students for students. We want to publish unbridled and beautifully written opinion. I hope the journalism on The Broad has the power to inspire, aggravate and sometimes silence. Essentially, if the girls, the boys, the lefties, the righties and everyone in between find something to shout about we’re doing our job right.
Felix Pawlyn, Managing Director
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