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Issue 88 – Autumn 2024
Click the front cover to read Issue 88 of The Cheese Grater, UCL's Publication of the Year 2024.
News & Investigations
Trouble for UCL Labour amid ‘lack of clear leadership’
The UCL Labour Society is off to a rocky start to the new academic year as its handful of remaining members complain about the ‘lack of clear leadership’.
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Voices & Letters
Student politics is broken, and it’s our fault
Student politics at UCL has a major crisis of engagement. In last year’s Leadership Race, the Union celebrated a ‘record-breaking’ turnout of… 23.7%....
What is it with the Provost and ‘Disagreeing Well’?
If you are new to UCL, you will probably notice very soon that the Provost has a particular obsession with ‘free speech’ and a little something calle...
The Mailsack: Issue 88, Autumn 2024
Please write to usDear Readers,The Cheese Grater had a brief experiment with a letters column called the Mailsack around ten years ago wh...
Graduation? No thank you.
The portal has opened, but its glow is far from beckoning… Instead, a rather grim, shadowy darkness looms, eager to swallow me up and spit me out ont...
‘It would be a pain if this gets out’: The boy’s club and university rugby
As a chronic eavesdropper, the minute I hear something vaguely interesting it sticks. And when it sticks, I start to dig.Ammara AslamThis...
Is it over for France? Portrait of a nation on fire
It’s difficult to put into words the degree of urgency of the situation.Andrea Bidnic Investigations EditorImagine a world where Nigel F...
Editorial: Don’t be held electoral hostage on July 4
When the choice at this general election is between the Tories and the Red Tories, The Cheese Grater believes that students should vote for an indepe...
On the Provost’s Update
Dayan MustafaIn his attempt to say nothing at all (nothing political, that is) Dr Michael Spence, the UCL Provost, has revealed more than he ...
UCL needs to Divest Now: Why Michael Spence must Listen to Protestors
Robert Delaney(image via @are_eb on X)As I write this opinion piece, pro-Palestinian encampments have sprung up on UCL’s Main Quad. Followin...
The state of the NUS is a bit like Blackpool
Nick MiaoOne question I found asking myself and my fellow delegates on our three-day trip to this year’s National Union of Students (NUS) National...
The Digestive
