Back Issues

Here you can download every issue of The Cheese Grater published since the magazine's foundation back in 2004.
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Issue 34 - March 2012.pdf
(4M)In this issue: Residents oppose UCL's Newham expansion; Peter Piper picks a peck; we show a screenshot of The Buzz's G8 coverage; The last article ever written in The Cheese Grater. -

Elections special - March 2012.pdf
(1.9M)In this issue: Interviews with all the full time sabbatical candidates; RON tells it how it is; Billy Fresher puts the word out; what the candidates are really thinking about. -

Issue 33 - February 2012.pdf
(5.9M)In this issue: Reclusive Auteur Brucie Hoops' new film; The Diary of Ed Miliband; Our Referendum coverage in full; UCL Karran's leaked past paper; Delia Smith lays an egg. -

Issue 32 - December 2011.pdf
(5.7M)In this issue: Malcolm Grant's expenses while travelling as part of a trade delegation; Pi Newspaper Editor Samuel Johnson resigns; Interview with Jan Zelter; Merry Christmas from The Cheese Grater. -

Issue 31, November 2011
(6.6M)In this issue: the Welcome Members' Meeting fails to get going; Malcolm Grant walks out of his own lunchtime lecture; Pi Newspaper takes a flogging; a computer pioneer kicks the bucket. -

Issue 30, September 2011
(5.6M)In this issue: we dish the dirt on UCL Union's attempts to censor The Cheese Grater; Handover Party descends into a drunken brawl; freshers advice for the new generation. -

Issue 29, March 2011
(9.7M)In this issue: UCL Occupation is back with a bang; we investigate UCL's plans to relocate the Slade; Chris Martin has a bath for Japan; David Cameron announces Eurovision referendum; the Noel Edmonds phone hacking scandal in full. -

Issue 28, February 2011
(4.8M)In this issue: UCL's £100m budget shortfall uncovered; Union reform causes rifts in Sabb offices; Management hands students' details to Met over criminal investigation; Cheese Grater reporters on the case in Egypt; Valentine's Day poetry. -

Issue 27, December 2010
(13.9M)In this issue: the full story on UCL Occupation; UCLU Sabb implicated in NUS malpractice; Cheese Grater interviews Emma Watson; vegan book reviews. -

Issue 26, November 2010
(3.5M)In this issue: Dodgy voting at Welcome General Meeting exposed; UCL management slashes student representation on committees; David Cameron cuts off his own testicle; Chilean miners star in reality TV show. -

Freshers' Fayre Issue, October 2010
(3.3M)In this issue: Conservative Society chaos exclusively revealed; Abdulmutallab returns for UCL Alumni event; fresher cookery advice from W.R. Glenfiddich; David Irving's first year experiences. -

Issue 25, March 2010
(5.3M)In this issue: UCL Extraordinary General Meeting ends in walkout; UCL Dean under pressure over leaked documents; plans to cut Wellcome Trust staff revealed; Mr B threatens to sue; Cheese Grater Election special. -

Issue 24, February 2010
(6.4M)In this issue: UCL's plans to decimate the Modern Languages department; a disturbing lack of competition in Union elections; we examine life on campus after the UCL pants bomber; the truth behind Coldplay uncovered. -

Issue 23, December 2009
(4.2M)In this issue: Controversy at Union Council over London Living Wage; further cuts loom in 6% reduction; Mr B's Pi column in full; a fresh perspective on the Tiger Woods scandal; plans to remove Barking from London. -

Issue 22, November 2009.pdf
(3.5M)In this issue: Union's Welcome General Meeting proves contentious; Provost continues to slash staffing levels in College; UCl's email services outsourced to Microsoft in bid to save cash; Radovan Karadžić’s Poetry Corner; Jan Moir's latest theories exclusively for Cheese Grater. -

Freshers' Fayre Issue, September 2009
(1.2M)In this issue: Jeremy Bentham caught with his trousers down; Vladimir Nabokov's guide to picking up freshers; Keith Floyd dusts off his first year student cook book; exclusive extracts from Malcolm Grant's diary. -

Issue 21, March 2009
(4.5M)In this issue: Another AGM farce; Pi's funding cut to make way for new Union publication; College systematically exploits Teaching Assistants. -

Issue 20, February 2009
(2.5M)In this issue: Democracy as UCLU as piss poor as ever; launch of new Union publication is another waste of money; College ditches interviews in another cost cutting measure; Halifax's Howard Brown kills self due to financial crisis; Boris Johnson eats own hand. -

Issue 19, December 2008
(4.5M)In this issue: UCL’s dodgy dealings with Camden Council over new academy; College’s ethical investment policy still leaves students fuming; Huntley Street to be turned into student accomodation; Christmas on a shoe string. -

Issue 18, November 2008
(3.4M)In this issue: Cheese Grater censored by Union over corruption story; The Sanctuary Newspaper returns despite ban on campus; UCL academy stokes controversy; UCL performance societies cast graduates rather than their own students; Freshers' Week NHS Direct flow chart; Deloitte try a new recruitment tactic. -

Freshers' Fayre Issue, September 2008
(3.5M)In this issue: Knife crime know-how for London's new arrivals; paedophiles strike back; a guide to UCL Union in all its decrepitude. -

Investigative Special, June 2008
(965K)In this issue: Education and Welfare Sabb blackmailed into voting; UCLU Officers abuse expenses to fund a holiday to America; no confidence motion mysteriously disappears. -

Special Report, March 2008
(907K)In this issue: a special investigation into the 2008 UCL Union Annual General Meeting. -

Issue 17, March 2008
(2.3M)In this issue: An in-depth look at Pi Media's colossal money wasting; Elections Bitch gets her claws out; a futuristic Cheese Grater for your enjoyment. -

Issue 16, February 2008
(3.8M)In this issue: One World Week is given the once over; asbestos desposits across campus threaten students' health; the Benazir Bhutto Assassination Re-enactment in the quad; our reporters explore Martha Stewart’s Scenic Vagina. -

Issue 15, December 2007
(4.7M)In this issue: We investigate the steaming shit heap that is UCL Sanctuary; UCLU website cockup hands passwords to hackers; Provost bows down to demands of herbalists; Mr Chatterbox questions whether our university's corporate identity has cost it its soul. -

Issue 14, November 2007
(3.5M)In this issue: UCL goes full steam ahead with arms shares; Provost's new Green Paper examined with horror; the unseen diaries of Anne Frank. -

Freshers' Fayre Issue, September 2007
(863K)In this issue: Pol Pot's freshers' week hell; UCLU Genocide Week; Cheese Grater interview with Coldplay. -

Issue 13, March 2007
(2.5M)In this issue: UCL's finance division holding on to students' cash; Sports Society Slave Auction ends with disgust; Provost throws his toys out of the pram over University of London; Vladimir and the Lolitas are causing a stir; new backstreet sport takes London by storm. -

Issue 12, February 2007
(5.6M)In this issue: Sabbs oppose Governance Review; our take on the new Pi Squared; Provost seeks to remove cap on top up fees; UCL's arms shares explored; the dark side of liberal England; Victor Meldrew's afterlives. -

Issue 11, December 2006
(3.3M)In this issue: Education and Welfare Sabb commits electoral fraud; UCL Refectory outsourced by management; a defence of the University of London; Malcolm Grant's bold news staff cutting plans; The Cheese Grater 'interviews' Daniel Craig. -

Issure 10, November 2006
(2.3M)In this issue: Portico online services beset by problems; Ramsay Hall building work causes chaos for students; Mr Chatterbox examines the farce that is UCL graduations; Plagiarism: a troubleshooting guide; Jeremy Bentham put up for sale on Ebay. -

Freshers' Fayre Issue, September 2006
(1.6M)In this issue: Gap year warfare; the Facebook essentials for university fun; UCL traditions for all those lovely freshers. -

Social Colour Supplement, July 2006
(1001K)In this issue: a one-off investigative special looking into the corruption and hypocrisy lurking behind UCL Union's social colours awards. -

Issue 9, March 2006
(1.7M)In this issue: Pi editor Simon Dedman cheats in UCLU elections; full coverage of the UCL lecturers' strike; the truth on Bruce Springsteen; REVEALED: NUS started Vietnam War. -

Issue 8, February 2006
(1.9M)In this issue: Mr Chatterbox examines UCL's monolithic desires over University of London;the problems with the Slade; The Adventures of Muhammad; Rachel Stevens loses bra. -

Issue 7, December 2005
(2M)In this issue: Mr Chatterbox looks into UCL's new corporate image; UCL employs arms supremo; university building project hits troubled waters; another great Pi spoof. -

Issue 6, November 2005
(3.4M)In this issue: UCL's £600k rebranding exercise revealed; student tragedy in Campbell House East; the life and times of Malcom Grant's moustache; Metro mockup. -

Freshers' Fayre Issue, September 2005
(9.7M)The Oxbridge Rejects Support Group flier. -

Issue 5, March 2005
(1M)In this issue: Malcolm Grant's charity tache shave; UCLU elections special report; Hunter S. Thompson’s last work. -

Issue 4, February 2005
(2.4M)In this issue: UCL's NUS referendum; Pi Media investigation; Education and Welfare Sabb comes under attack; David Attenborough's new student documentary; Tommy the Post-Nuclear Cat. -

Issue 3, December 2004
(1.8M)In this issue: UCLU Garage Theatre gets egoistic; we explore problems with the construction of UCLH; The Cheese Grater's first ever parody of Pi Magazine; Griff Rhys Jones plans to buy London Foot Hospital. -

Issue 2, October 2004
(2.7M)In this issue: Honderich Hits London Student; UCL boy screws up Tories; coverage of the European Social Forum; the Campaign for UCL. -

Issue 1, March 2004
(4.6M)The pilot issue.
