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Arts Awards 2025: Jazz Soc wins Arts Society of the Year
The Jazz Society also won Best Event alongside Salsa Society for their Jazz x Salsa Fiesta, a sold-out cross-society collaboration...
Society Awards 2025: Malaysian Soc wins Society of the Year
GenFem wins Diversity Award for second year in a row whilst Hindu Soc bags Best Event having spent £18,000 on this year's Rangeela...
Sports Awards 2025: Badminton wins Club of the Year
Badminton Club's Alina Phang was also named Captain of the Year in what was a huge night for the club and the wider Team UCL commu...
Community Awards 2025: Where have all the Hall Reps gone?
Camden Road's Oskar Baltrop was named Hall Community Officer of the Year and won Hall Community Event of the Year as the only nomi...
UCL Ukrainian Society suspended after buying a drone to fight Putin
Exclusive: The Ukrainian Society confirmed it purchased a drone to aid the war effort at home before it was suspended by the Union...
UCL Emperors crowned victors over KCL Regents
The UCL Emperors delivered a close victory at this year's Varsity game, scoring a 13-12 win against the KCL Regents.
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UCL Tories to host Robert Jenrick for £115 a head dinner
The senior Tory MP will address a host of London University Tory Societies at a gala dinner next week
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The Cheese Grater named Best Publication in London
The Cheese Grater also won Best Digital while investigations editor Malvika Murkumbi was named Best Journalist in London
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UCL medics back NHS privatisation in debate
A clear division was seen between medics and politics students who attended the debate last Friday
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Revealed: Scammers targeting students with Sabrina Carpenter tickets
UCL society group chats have been inundated with ticket scams for artists like Sabrina Carpenter
Lola ...
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 'la...
Tory Soc suspended again
The UCL Conservatives have outdone themselves by beating their record of getting suspended by the Union just two weeks after they...
‘Union Funding Barely Keeps Us Afloat’: UCL Water Polo and the SU
Robert Delaney
The first rule of water polo is to keep your head above the water. Yet, the UCL Water Polo Club is struggling t...
InEffective UnAltruism: The Problem with UCL’s Effective Altruism Society
Thais Jones & Aniela Bichot
The first time a student hears the term “Effective Altruism”, they tend to assume the best. An...
Chun Buckets Everywhere: How Initiation Ceremonies Ruin the Freshers Experience
This article was awarded Best News Story at the 2023 Student Publication Association Awards and Best Media Piece at the 2023 Stu...
Why we need the 93% Club at UCL
It is no secret that state-school students have faced, and continue to face, significant barriers when accessing higher education ...
What exactly is the Not Cool Club? In conversation with the club’s president
The Not Cool Club at UCL has gained a lot of traction. All around campus the walls are covered in black and yellow posters promoti...
Socialist Workers Party secretly run student society
The Cheese Grater can exclusively reveal that UCL Socialist Worker Student Society (SWSS), affiliated to the Socialist Workers Par...
Here’s How Many Societies Opted-Out of The Union’s Shambolic Online Elections
The controversial plan to move AGMs online appears to have been much ado about nothing, with the majority of UCL’s 268 societies o...
Second Time’s The Charm For Ex-IDF Speaker
Back in 2016, UCL won international news coverage when an event with Hen Mazzig, hosted by UCL Friends of Israel, was disrupted by...
