by Dan Pearson | 1 12, f, 2021 | Campus News, News
Academic staff at Keele University commenced three days of strikes earlier this month, beginning on Wednesday 1st December and ending on Friday 3rd. The university was one of 33 institutions to strike over issues relating to pension cuts and pay. Staff at an...
by Dan Pearson | 1 12, f, 2021 | Campus News, News
A blanket by-election organised by the SU has saved a large number of clubs and societies from inactivity next year. Elections for all club and society committees had taken place in May, but few students nominated themselves and interest in the process was relatively...
by Dan Pearson | 1 15, f, 2021 | Culture, Television
I remember the first time I heard the name David Berkowitz. It was on an old episode of Seinfeld – I can’t remember exactly what the plot was, but it somehow revolved around Newman’s job at the post office. At one point, Newman presented a mail bag he claimed had been...
by Dan Pearson | 1 1, f, 2021 | Opinion
The spongy afro may have made him look like a long-lost member of Sly and the Family Stone, but Bob Ross was a seminal hair icon – alongside Oprah, the bearded bloke from Queer Eye, and myself. And yet the hair was only part of the picture. With a paint brush in one...
by Dan Pearson | 1 23, f, 2021 | Opinion
Honestly, I was reluctant to watch Bridgerton. The aristocracy? Georgian-era romance? Fancy words I don’t understand? I’d much rather go to the pub. Unfortunately, the pub wasn’t an option. Neither were my essays, which I believe everyone should leave until the very...
by Dan Pearson | 1 7, f, 2021 | International News, Opinion
Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff have unseated two incumbent Republican senators to secure victory in Tuesday’s nail-biting Georgia elections. Warnock, who has served as a pastor in Atlanta since 2005, defeated Kelly Loeffler to win his race, while Ossoff took down...
by Dan Pearson | 1 22, f, 2020 | National News, Opinion
Get in, loser. We’re going to the Isle of Wight. That’s what I would say if I didn’t live in a tier 3 area, from which outside travel is strictly advised against. Yes, my small town of Stafford has sadly been lumped together with the rest of the county into the...
by Dan Pearson | 1 12, f, 2020 | Opinion
Exactly what Noel Odell saw that day has never been definitively established. Looking up at the vast, frozen peak of Mount Everest, Odell – a member of the 1924 British expedition that aimed to be the first to reach the summit – reported seeing two small dots...
by Dan Pearson | 1 28, f, 2020 | Culture, Literature
The Great Gatsby fell into obscurity almost as soon as it appeared. Published in 1925 to poor reviews and even poorer sales, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s idiosyncratic take on the Roaring Twenties – and the decadent hedonism that defined it – failed to resonate with...
by Dan Pearson | 1 28, f, 2020 | Culture, Television
A race of aliens and their suspicious cookbooks. A gremlin wreaking havoc on the wing of a plane. A clown, a homeless man, a ballet dancer, a bagpiper, and an army officer trapped inside a giant cylinder with no idea how they got there or how they get out. So go the...
by Dan Pearson | 1 11, f, 2020 | Opinion
French philosopher Albert Camus once told the story of Sisyphus, a character from Greek mythology who, when it was time for him to die, cheated death by putting Hades in chains when he came to collect his soul. Eventually Hades was liberated, and Sisyphus’ punishment...
