Humour, Satire, & Graphics
The ONLY funny people at UCL. Follow our Instagram (@uclcheesegrater) to find out when we meet or email pitches/drawings/queries to humour@cheesegratermagazine.org. Don’t be shy. We need all the help we can get… – cheers, the Editors xxx
UCL North to be established in orbit above Earth
                27 October 2025            
            
                                                    Better with Bentham
                26 October 2025            
            
                                                    UCL Provost set to join the MCU
                26 October 2025            
            
                                                    An American guide to London
                23 October 2025            
            
                                                    LGBTQ+ Network “too woke”, proclaims Rep Election candidate
                23 October 2025            
            
                                                    He was a fairy!
                19 October 2025            
            
                                                    Are you there, chums? It’s me, Jonty!
                11 October 2025            
            
                                                    The London Scab: Top 10 UCL Grads
                10 October 2025            
            
                                                    I’m a UCL student… Get me out of here!
                5 October 2025            
            
                                                    Review: Diwana Bhel Poori House
                28 September 2025            
            
                                                    The 2025 Expedition East
                28 September 2025            
            
                                                    Virgin Media please stop calling me
                28 September 2025            
            
                                                    Review of UCL’s nautical mile
                28 September 2025            
            
                                                    A guide on how to talk to your Northern friend(s)
                28 September 2025            
            
                                                    Self-Destruction is cool: Putting the dying in stuDying
                27 September 2025            
            
                                                    It’s time to be served some humble Pie
                26 September 2025            
            
                                                    Pint-sized Review 1: A Guinness at the Huntley
                26 September 2025            
            
                                                    Chuck Brody’s Totally Legit Tips for Improving Your Gym Sessions
                23 September 2025            
            
                                                    Another year for the books, easy as Pie
                13 June 2025            
            
                                                    How to survive the exam season at UCL
                13 June 2025            
            
                                                    100 men, a gorilla, and the desperation of man
                13 June 2025            
            
                                                    HMP Belmarsh to become UCL hall
                12 June 2025            
            
                                                    If Mully’s goes, I go with it
                12 June 2025            
            
                                                    Scala tickets bought up by major investment banks
                17 April 2025            
            
                                                    The Cheese Grater’s Guide to Recession Indicators
                17 April 2025            
            
                                                    Failed joke candidates to form Supervillain League
                22 March 2025            
            
                                                    Michael Spence, inside the mind
                10 March 2025            
            
                                                    Dishonest academic practices
                3 March 2025            
            
                                                    UCL bans straight people for Valentine’s Day
                13 February 2025            
            
                                                    Beaten by the January Blues
                13 February 2025            
            
                                                    Beat the January Blues
                13 February 2025            
            
                                                    Vending machine rebellion occupies Student Centre
                13 February 2025            
            
                                                    The Cheese Grater will not succumb to the woke UCL East agenda
                11 February 2025            
            
                                                    Yes, every inconvenience is aimed at you in particular
                3 February 2025            
            
                                                    All in a day’s work: UCL wraps up investment review in one day
                3 February 2025            
            
                                                    Any way you slice it, we’re better
                3 February 2025            
            
                                                    Disgraced Union President stole a carton of juice
                2 February 2025            
            
                                                    Working toilet found in Student Centre on first try
                2 February 2025            
            
                                                    Sassy intruder with an agenda: Zoro the campus fox
                2 February 2025            
            
                                                    Special UCL taskforce foils terror threat
                2 February 2025            
            
                                                    Computer Science student makes history dating AI scam bot
                2 February 2025            
            
                                                    ‘I’m more than just an Oxbridge reject’
                2 February 2025            
            
                                                    24 hours in the Student Center Basement
                9 December 2024            
            
                                                    The Cheese Grater’s Guide to London
                24 November 2024            
            
                                                    Spotted on UCLove…
                11 November 2024            
            
                                                    UCL-themed Halloween costume ideas
                31 October 2024            
            
                                                    My culture is not your costume
                31 October 2024            
            
                                                    An encounter with the phantom flatmate
                31 October 2024            
            
                                                    Dear phantom flatmate
                31 October 2024            
            
                                                    Bentham box suggestions
                31 October 2024            
            
                                                    Terrorism Society banned INSTANTLY
                27 October 2024            
            
                                                    Union to merge all political societies
                27 October 2024            
            
                                                    Chaos after Tory-led freshers’ fair riot
                16 October 2024            
            
                                                    Sack of potatoes in pole position for Tory leader
                13 October 2024            
            
                                                    Papers please: USSR comes to Bloomsbury
                13 October 2024            
            
                                                    Cycle rickshaws: the good, the bad, and the bedazzled
                3 October 2024            
            
                                                    Remember your place, losers
                1 October 2024            
            
                                                    Top five spots on campus to have a breakdown in (tried and tested)
                29 September 2024            
            
                                                    Diary of a Med Student: Strike Day #62
                21 September 2024            
            
                                                    Campbell House Rat x Portico Pigeon
                3 May 2024            
            
                                                    ‘Toxic Gossip Train’ (Rebekah’s Version)
                11 April 2024            
            
                                                    Top 5 Pisstastic Places Around Campus
                18 January 2024            
            
                                                    Cheese Grater Satire Writer Insists He Is OK
                17 January 2024            
            
                                                    How to be a UCL Medical Student
                10 January 2024            
            
                                                    The Venture to the Void
                10 January 2024            
            
                                                    Keir Starmer… A Day in the Life
                10 January 2024            
            
                                                    Progressive Policy Suggestions for Keir Starmer
                10 January 2024            
            
                                                    Fine, Fresh, and Full of Flu – The Diary of a Social Virus
                10 January 2024            
            
                                                    What UCL Hall are you???
                2 October 2023            
            
                                                    Avoiding a Knockout: Advice from a UCL dropout
                2 October 2023            
            
                                                    Tilly’s Diary
                2 October 2023            
            
                                                    The UCL guide to being a covert Oxbridge reject
                18 January 2023            
            
                                                    Naked Yoga: A Belligerent Ode to the Pussy
                18 January 2023            
            
                                                    Straight out of Tottenham (Court Road)
                16 January 2023            
            
                                                    Rejected Dissertation Titles
                19 December 2022            
            
                                                    Silent Night
                16 December 2022            
            
                                                    How to Sound like Your Cyborg Classmates
                18 November 2022            
            
                                                    Packed Lunches: A Story of Possession
                18 November 2022            
            
                                                    Truss is a (Shit) Show
                18 November 2022            
            
                                                    Ode to Sports Night
                18 November 2022            
            
                                                    What the Upcoming Mercury Retrograde Means for You
                3 October 2022            
            
                                                    Advice to Freshers
                3 October 2022            
            
                                                    Clearing the air.
                3 October 2022            
            
                                                    5 Study Spaces UCL don’t want YOU to know about
                3 October 2022            
            
                                                    Congrats on becoming a dad Michael Cera ❤️
                27 May 2022            
            
                                                    An Elegy for the £3 Meal Deal
                27 May 2022            
            
                                                    A little rant about sprinkles
                1 March 2022            
            
                                                    Molly-Mae is the QUEEN of QUOTES
                1 March 2022            
            
                                                    Butter on Toast Recipe
                1 March 2022            
            
                                                    What’sAppening with this WhatsApp shite?
                1 March 2022            
            
                                                    The Classics, Re-Reviewed
                2 February 2022            
            
                                                    Socialising 101 for Dummies at Uni
                2 February 2022            
            
                                                    Letters to the Editor
                2 February 2022            
            
                                                    An Ode to Coughing
                29 November 2021            
            
                                                    Cheese Grater Admits to Endorsing SU Agenda
                11 November 2021            
            
                                                    Vaguely Finance-related Society Name Generator, On Sale NOW!
                9 November 2021            
            
                                                    A Sonnet for Sin Bin
                6 November 2021            
            
                                                    Teenager X
                4 November 2021            
            
                                                    Grammarly: Your Free Online Writing Assistant
                20 August 2021            
            
                                                    The Unspoken Impact of COVID-19
                29 July 2021            
            
                                                    Postgraduate Teaching Assistant Secrets
                9 July 2021            
            
                                                    Not All Men
                6 April 2021            
            
                                                    Oven-Ready
                10 March 2021            
            
                                                    An Article that is Not About the Pandemic
                26 February 2021            
            
                                                    A Self-Portrait of an English Student and Artist
                26 February 2021            
            
                                                    Postgraduate Teaching Assistant Secrets
                26 February 2021            
            
                                                    Crisis on the Central Line
                26 February 2021            
            
                                                    Updated UCL Careers Advice
                29 January 2021            
            
                                                    Olivia Rodrigo’s Driving Instructor Reveals All
                29 January 2021            
            
                                                    Priti Patel Retrains as the Child Snatcher
                4 December 2020            
            
                                                    The 25 Stages of Writing a Satire Article
                4 December 2020            
            
                                                    How I Recreated the Freshers Experience Living with my Parents
                4 December 2020            
            
                                                    Count Your Blessings
                25 November 2020            
            
                                                    In Defence of Covidian Freshers (by Fresher)
                25 November 2020            
            
                                                    Cheese Grater Guides: How to Speak Like Emily in Paris
                11 November 2020            
            
                                                    Economic Forecasting
                30 October 2020            
            
                                                    Cling Film Life Hacks
                30 October 2020            
            
                                                    Lessons in Marketing – The Not Cool Club
                29 October 2020            
            
                                                    Things That Are Two Meters Long
                1 April 2020            
            
                                                    The ExCel Experience: COVID-19 edition
                1 April 2020            
            
                                                    How to make a WikiHow article
                4 March 2020            
            
                                                    Brexit: A Living Museum
                2 March 2020            
            
                                                    Corona-virus
                2 March 2020            
            
                                                    LGBTQ Month: Werewolf edition
                21 February 2020            
            
                                                    5 Ways To Get In Shape For Module Registration
                21 February 2020            
            
                                                    Boris Serves Tea, Casual Racism and Misogyny
                31 January 2020            
            
                                                    Loose Lips Might Sink Trade Negotiations
                31 January 2020            
            
                                                    Barexit: A History of Brexit In a Drinks Menu
                12 December 2019            
            
                                                    Boris did THAT?
                12 December 2019            
            
                                                    European Migration: The Cheese Grater’s Plan
                12 December 2019            
            
                                                    Labour’s New Leadership Hopefuls
                12 December 2019            
            
                                                    Merry Christmas from Universities UK!
                12 December 2019            
            
                                                    Brought to you by @factcheckUK
                23 November 2019            
            
                                                    The Secret To Failure: Barbara is Back
                28 September 2019            
            
                                                    Provost thoughts
                21 March 2019            
            
                                                    The search for the next Provost begins
                21 March 2019            
            
                                                    Giving head: Jeremy Bentham speaks
                21 March 2019            
            
                                                    My Best Friend Genghis
                5 February 2019            
            
                                                    Special announcement for commuters
                5 February 2019            
            
                                                    The Fuzz: UCL’s quality online magazine
                5 February 2019            
            
                                                    *IMPORTANT* New exam venue details
                5 February 2019            
            
                                                    Cringe! You kinda asked for it
                5 February 2019            
            
                                                    Puzzlemaster Wendy’s Suko Puzzler
                5 February 2019            
            
                                                    Fair’s Fair UCL
                5 February 2019            
            
                                                    In the Bleak Midwinter: A UCL tale
                5 February 2019            
            
                                                    The Cheese Grater Magazine’s London Hot Spot Watch
                11 December 2018            
            
                                                    Smashed Avocado
                11 December 2018            
            
                                                    A sneak peak into our next issue…
                11 December 2018            
            
                                                    Labour’s Brexit position revealed
                11 December 2018            
            
                                                    Interview: Jordan “B” Peterson
                11 December 2018            
            
                                                    Free Bike Maintenance
                30 October 2018            
            
                                                    IMPORTANT: Timetabling Update
                30 October 2018            
            
                                                    Exclusive: Boris Johnson’s first speech as Prime Minister
                30 October 2018            
            
                                                    In conversation with… Michael Arthur
                30 October 2018            
            
                                                    UC(tel)L(y)
                30 October 2018            
            
                                                    Health Check
                29 September 2018            
            
                                                    Freshers’ Tube Guide
                29 September 2018            
            
                                                    #UCLouvain
                29 September 2018            
            
                                                    untitled by jack
                14 May 2018            
            
                                                    UCL’s White Christmas
                9 February 2018            
            
                                                    Logan Paul’s Big Announcement
                8 February 2018            
            
                                                    The Cheese Grater At Risk Of Closure
                4 February 2018            
            
                                                    Spotted In George Farha
                29 January 2018            
            
                                                    “Regal Carpet” Review
                28 January 2018            
            
                                                    A.A. Gill, Back From The Dead, Comes To UCL
                26 January 2018            
            
                                                    Theresa May’s Diary Leaked To Press
                25 January 2018            
            
                                                    What Is UCL’s Favourite Spoon?
                25 January 2018            
            
                                                    A Quick Catch Up With Ed Miliband
                25 January 2018            
            
                                                    I Quit My Day Job To Travel The World
                13 December 2017            
            
                                                    The Tab Caves To Student Pressure
                13 December 2017            
            
                                                    Casanovas’ Corner: We Give You Our Secrets To Sex
                4 December 2017            
            
                                                    This One Stupid Thing Will Ruin The Cruciform For You Forever
                1 December 2017            
            
                                                    The Secret To Success: The Three Rules Of Studying
                27 November 2017            
            
                                                    Uber’s London Licence Extended Indefinitely
                27 November 2017            
            
                                                    Dalmation Man
                3 November 2017            
            
                                                    Free Range Pigs
                3 November 2017            
            
                                                    Exclusive: Union Changes Its Name Again
                20 October 2017            
            
                                                    Hurl! Hurl! Hurl! (To Everything There Is a Season)
                9 October 2017            
            
                                                    UCL Pioneers Way To Improve Student Satisfaction
                2 October 2017            
            
                                                    Nostalgia, Actually
                24 March 2017            
            
                                                    That controversial David Cameron speech in full
                24 March 2017            
            
                                                    Busman Begins (2005)
                24 March 2017            
            
                                                    #thedarkknight
                14 February 2017            
            
                                                    That new-look website in full
                14 February 2017            
            
                                                    Wow! One magic trick and your locker is protected forever!
                14 February 2017            
            
                                                    ‘Ars Amatoria’
                14 February 2017            
            
                                                    A very patriotic Valentine’s Day to you all
                14 February 2017            
            
                                                    ‘The Sublime Idiot of Ideology’
                14 February 2017            
            
                                                    Donald Trump Inauguration Speech “Plagiarised Hussein”
                14 February 2017            
            
                                                    A Forbidden Lust: An Ode to Ivanka
                3 February 2017            
            
                                                    Theresa May’s Neonatal Passport Checks
                22 January 2017            
            
                                                    The Herstory of the Potato
                4 March 2016            
            
                                                    The Provost’s Dream Diary
                4 February 2015            
            
                                                    An Exclusive Interview with Richard d’Urquhart
                5 March 2014            
            
                                                    Just The Tips For Valentines!
                14 February 2014            
            
                                                    
 
                                                                     
                                                                     
                                                                     
                                                                     
                                                                     
                                                                     
                                                                     
                                                                     
                                                                     
                                                                     
                                                                     
                                                                     
                                                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