Referenda Close

UCL Union fails to declare no confidence in Malcolm, becomes pro-choice and will decide international policy through member’s meetings or referenda - The pro-Grant campaign has won motion one of the UCLU Referendum, overturning the decision made during December’s EMM to place no confidence in...

No Room At The Holiday Inn?

Provost charges College for expenses while travelling as part of a trade delegation - As if a salary of £376,190 a year were not enough, UCL has been funding the lavish lifestyle of UCL Provost, Professor Malcolm Grant as he travels the world as part of a trade delegation on supposed UCL business, according to a Freedom of Information request made by The Cheese Grater...

Down Your Union

After the well-publicised failings of campus democracy so far this year (see CG31), it came as a surprise to many that the Emergency Members’ Meeting on 1 December actually got going. More surprising still was the queue of around 150 people who waited for up to an hour in the rain just to participate...

Raging Bullshit

The fight of the century - Netanyahu vs. Abbas - The air is electric. Almost twenty thousand people of all persuasions cram into the main amphitheatre in the Earl’s Court Exhibition Centre...

Extracts from the blog of a drink sodden ex-Trotskyist

Merry ‘Christ-mas’ - Yet again we approach the mawkish and otiose celebration of child abuse that many a sinister, credulous god-loving charlatan has decided to term in recent years ‘Christ-mas’. I believe it is my duty, as a reasoning man of the Enlightenment - and devotee of such towering figures as Immanuel Kant...

London's Glo-ho-hobal University

UCL Provost Professor Malcolm Grant is attempting to cash in on Christmas cheer by adorning the UCL website with a lot of yuletide tat...

Profile: Jan Zelter

A rare interview with the Eastern European intellectual powerhouse...