Humour
Humour from The Cheese Grater features satirical news articles, fake (and often libellous) interviews, funny adverts for questionable products, surreal excursions into B-List celebrities’ lives, and soul-searching cartoons.
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Which Usuli Twelver Ayatollah And District Of Serbia Is Your University?
Let’s be honest, it was only a matter of time. Now I know, I know: the old ‘which Usuli Twelver Ayatollah and district of Serbia is your university?’ joke is…
Hurl! Hurl! Hurl! (To Everything There Is a Season)
One of UCL’s cleaners (not underpaid or undervalued by UCL or students at all!) shares their experience… When you get to my age, you really learn to hate the young.…
UCL Pioneers Way To Improve Student Satisfaction
Roused into action by being placed 120th in the country for student satisfaction, UCL has thrown its black heart and soul into cheering up its disaffected yoof. One favourite scheme…
What your course looks like, according to everyone else
You’d think that categorising students by their subject would be an obvious attempt to rely on tired old tropes in a desperate plea to get people to click on this…
Nostalgia, Actually
This year, prepare yourselves for the film so English it’s probably racist: Love Actually 2. Richard Curtis’ beloved romcom returns with a sobering reminder of the inevitable impacts of ageing,…
Vegetarian eats Mexican man in “tragic misunderstanding”
Mexican Mondays/ Meat-Free Mondays Mix-Up The Cheese Grater can reveal shocking developments surrounding the death of UCL student, Carlos Gonzalez. Mr Gonzalez, a first-year student History student was found bloodied…
That controversial David Cameron speech in full
The former man visited Eton College on the last day of term. “Thank you, thank you. It seems like only yesterday I myself was leaving this fine school, ready to…