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Lefty men need to wake up to their failures on feminism

Jonty Leibowitz / 14th January 20165 Comments

Men on the Left are complacent about feminism – we need a long, hard look in the mirror, and we need to start listening

Happy New Year – Have another passively racist Hollywood film

Audrey Sebatindira / 9th January 2016Leave a Comment

2016 – the new version of Tarzan. Batten down the hatches, this is going to get problematic.

Romanticising whites-only Africa isn’t new, creative, or clever – it’s dangerous

Audrey Sebatindira / 5th September 20158 Comments

Honey, if your ‘Wildest Dreams’ are of a whites-only Africa, being dumped by your boyfriend at the movie premiere is the least of your problems.

Walter White (Bryan Cranston) - Breaking Bad _ Season 5, Episode 14 - Photo Credit: Ursula Coyote/AMC

You are not a pathetic Ozymandias: Keep asking for help

Chris Page / 24th June 20152 Comments

Never stop trying.

We get it, you read 1984 once. Sit down

Julia Sklar / 1st June 20156 Comments

Please stop saying that anything you find vaguely uncomfortable is “Orwellian”.

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Azeem’s Flute Recital was funny, racism and homophobia aren’t

Safiya Robinson / 18th May 20155 Comments

There is nothing ‘cheeky’ about hijacking an event for black lesbians on the other side of the world.

The unsanctionable nature of protest: why Brendan O’Neill is the true enemy of freedom of speech

Julia Sklar / 30th April 201514 Comments

Brenny plz

When ‘The Man’ comes knocking – and he’s brought champagne

Isabel Adomakoh-Young / 27th April 20153 Comments

What happens when the company you’ve been boycotting plies you with a private jet and a wad of cash?

We need to explode the patriarchal myth about male rape

Chris Page / 24th April 20153 Comments

I am a male survivor of sexual abuse. Now can we please stop blaming feminism?

In Defence of the White Defender

Nayim Patel / 18th April 2015Leave a Comment

The battle against Islamophobia is a war of the minds. To be silent is to surrender.

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Why Ireland's complicated history is about to make a divisive comeback

January 26th, 2016

It was recently reported in the Irish Times that the Irish government may invite Prince Charles to a[...]

Political propaganda is obscuring the good work volunteers do in Calais

January 21st, 2016

Last week, Philippe Mignonet, Deputy Mayor of Calais, dismissed volunteers who travel to migrant cam[...]

Lefty men need to wake up to their failures on feminism

January 14th, 2016

Let me start by admitting something; I have never truly thought about my relationship with feminism.[...]

The 10 things that happen when you become a student journalist

January 12th, 2016

1. The initial excitement You post excessively on Facebook, proudly linking your first ever print[...]

Labour needs to sit down, shut up, and start doing politics

January 9th, 2016

I would have opened with an acknowledgement that Labour is currently more openly divided than it has[...]

Happy New Year – Have another passively racist Hollywood film

January 9th, 2016

The newest Tarzan movie has yet to reach cinemas but the official synopsis, as released by Warner Br[...]

We cannot keep letting 'immigrant' become a dirty word

October 24th, 2015

This summer saw one of the most extraordinary shifts in public attitudes for a long while. I do not [...]

Why I wrote to the Prime Minister on Junior Doctors' Contracts

October 24th, 2015

The government is imposing a new contract on junior doctors that can only be interpreted as a kick i[...]

The Stepford Student is Recruiting

October 16th, 2015

Arm ye the left-leaning masses, and ye shall march into battle against the forces of unregulated mar[...]

Romanticising whites-only Africa isn't new, creative, or clever – it's dangerous

September 5th, 2015

Taylor Swift is, once again, facing backlash for a racially insensitive music video. I get that it m[...]

Fandyism is more than luscious brown eyes – it's about winning back forgotten voters

August 27th, 2015

Fandyism. Half-baked epilogue to Milifandom or bright-eyed dash of northern soul? In any case, the a[...]

The media's pornographic use of murder for hits is astoundingly pathetic

August 27th, 2015

Yesterday, two journalists were shot dead in cold blood, live on American television. Later, the gun[...]

We cannot let racist caricatures become the new norm in our national press

August 17th, 2015

When I first saw this cartoon, published in the Daily Mail, my first reaction wasn’t anger or indign[...]

The anti-Corbyn hysteria is founded on shoddy politics and even shoddier history

August 11th, 2015

The Past Historians tells us to learn from the mistakes of the past. Every repetition of that bro[...]

'Lad culture' is a pathetic excuse for a much darker problem

August 7th, 2015

I am a feminist woman who has dealt with more than her (un)fair share of sexual harassment. Yet I st[...]

Why I'm done with the austerity-on-speed circle jerk that is the EU

July 30th, 2015

Europhile or Europhobe? My guess is that if you’re young, educated and somewhere on the left, you’re[...]

The Labour Right is magnificently self-destructing

July 29th, 2015

Let's take a moment to consider a fundamental political question: Is the Labour Right for real? [...]

Redundant workers eclipsed by Dublin’s most famous clock

June 25th, 2015

Since the Friday before last, many have felt the need to tweet farewell to a Dublin landmark they ne[...]

You are not a pathetic Ozymandias: Keep asking for help

June 24th, 2015

"Thank you for calling the Generic Mental Health Crisis Line. Unfortunately, no one is here to take [...]

We get it, you read 1984 once. Sit down

June 1st, 2015

For many, our introduction to Orwell was at a tender age. As a speccy fourteen year old, I read it a[...]

If we're paying £9k a year, we deserve to have a say in what we're taught

May 27th, 2015

An event held on in Manchester on Friday 25th April, Free Education MCR, explored what a free, liber[...]

Azeem's Flute Recital was funny, racism and homophobia aren't

May 18th, 2015

TW: Homophobia, racism, rape, hate speech, violence Last week saw thousands of bored UK students [...]

Will a North London Jew ever run the country?

May 14th, 2015

Ed Miliband may well have been the victim of several implicitly anti-Semitic attacks, but when a fri[...]

10 reasons why we probably shouldn't poo in David Cameron's mouth

May 12th, 2015

By Isobel Cockerell and Allan Hennessy On Friday an editor of The Stepford Student, who shall he[...]

Which Disney villain is your Tory cabinet minister?

May 11th, 2015

A new Parliament, and a new set of Cabinet Ministers to demonise. Only this time, for the first time[...]

10 Suggestions for the Tory Bill of Rights

May 11th, 2015

The Tories are back in office. The Human Rights Act is going to be scrapped in the near future, to b[...]

I couldn't give a single flying shit about electoral reform

May 10th, 2015

With our broken voting system, ten million people can apparently vote for a party and get half an MP[...]

Dear Tory voter: I can call you a cunt if I want

May 9th, 2015

Just before the election, a friend of mine posted a status on Facebook (the audacity!) about why you[...]

Stop this left-wing snobbery: we’re becoming everything we hate

May 9th, 2015

Party politics doesn’t bring out the best in people. Perhaps they improve with age, but most politic[...]

General Election 2015: Predictions

May 7th, 2015

1) A last-minute Labour surge happens, but still not enough for an overall majority. Predictably, th[...]

Go out and vote today. Just don't expect your voice to be heard

May 7th, 2015

So here we now stand, on the precipice. A new government beckons: will it be #Milibae or D[...]

Vote for whoever the fuck you want

May 6th, 2015

Yesterday I was betrayed. My journalistic world crumbled and I’ve been left as a hopeless infant, wi[...]

'I'd have shaved if I'd have known there'd be the national media here': Counting down to the election with the Greens

May 6th, 2015

On its second day in Cambridge, the Green party's battle bus, a red and green Routemaster running on[...]

The unsanctionable nature of protest: why Brendan O'Neill is the true enemy of freedom of speech

April 30th, 2015

Earlier this week, Brendan O’Neill treated the Spectator’s online readership to a thesis on how Femi[...]

Four Rules that would Fix Pre-Election Politics

April 28th, 2015

Despite the neck-and-neck polls, and the magical appearance of a whole new political rainbow, 2015 p[...]

When ‘The Man’ comes knocking - and he’s brought champagne

April 27th, 2015

I like to think of myself as a pretty moral gal. My mum's both a hippy and a journalist, so I grew u[...]

Labour has driven me to support the SNP

April 24th, 2015

Scotland has made this election campaign surreal. Previously impossible events are clashing uncomfor[...]

Can we please just renationalise the railways already

April 24th, 2015

Back in the early nineties, a stagnating Conservative government, under the infamously dreary leader[...]

We need to explode the patriarchal myth about male rape

April 24th, 2015

TW: Sexual violence, abuse, rape. The sad fact of my life is that I am a survivor of sexual abuse[...]

Australia is too afraid to start a conversation about race

April 20th, 2015

Australia: my home, the land of kangaroos, beetroot in burgers, Bondi Beach babes and a whole lot of[...]

In Defence of the White Defender

April 18th, 2015

A couple of days ago, a Muslim couple in Australia were the subject of a racially abusive tirade tha[...]

The Left needs solidarity now more than ever

April 17th, 2015

Ed fought Nicola. Nicola fought Nigel. Nigel fought Ed. Natalie fought everyone. Dave and Nick staye[...]

The General Erection

April 17th, 2015

Ed watched as the members of parliament sullenly shuffled from the House of Commons chamber, mutteri[...]

Doing it for themselves: why is entrepreneurship more of a challenge for black women?

April 16th, 2015

When you think about entrepreneurs, who do you picture? Suited and booted slick Apprentice candidate[...]

Shitegeist

April 11th, 2015

Sponsored this week by Ukip and the Milk Marketing Board A week is a long time in politics. Th[...]

Decolonising film-making with Cecile Emeke

April 11th, 2015

When it comes to film-making, the general industry view is that there is not enough demand for black[...]

Join the Stepford Team

April 10th, 2015

We've been going for less than a month but we're already looking to expand our editorial team. [...]

How to be the perfect rape survivor

April 9th, 2015

Trigger Warning: Rape; Graphic Descriptions of physical harm and sexual violence Let your rapist[...]

Why must black pain be seen to be believed?

April 8th, 2015

We have all seen images of dead brown bodies. Be it lynchings, police shootings, war scenes or Oxfam[...]

Cuntry Dying: Is the Feminist discussion group scaring its members into silence?

April 7th, 2015

Last week, something earth-shaking happened in everyone’s favourite feminist discussion group. It al[...]

The Savage Myth of the Great White Working Class Beast

April 4th, 2015

The recent article entitled ‘Controlling immigration is patronising and dangerous’ is, frankly, patr[...]

Confessions of a Tabloid Journalist

April 3rd, 2015

'Gutter press, the sidebar of shame, bloody tabloids.' We say it again and again. But we always c[...]

How to survive the Leaders' Debate

April 2nd, 2015

The campaign proper has kicked off. The seven-way leaders' debate is here. Let's get this son of a b[...]

Dismissing immigration is patronising and dangerous

April 2nd, 2015

Labour’s recent decision to make an ‘immigration mug’ emblazoned with the party’s plans to place ‘co[...]

Sign the petition: Ban complaining about Freedom of Speech now

April 1st, 2015

It seems like every few days there’s another incident involving no platforming or censorship, where [...]

BoJo announces new 'Tours not Wars' anti-radicalisation scheme in London schools

April 1st, 2015

Boris Johnson announced in a press release last night an extensive new scheme aiming to reduce Islam[...]

Vapid lifestyle bloggers must be the first to go in the Communist Revolution

March 31st, 2015

The day you stumble upon the intricate, twisted, labyrinthine world of lifestyle bloggers is a dark [...]

Guns, Girls and Goats: Hypermasculinity in the Modern Age

March 27th, 2015

When people talk about masculinity, it normally goes one of two ways. Either the discussion descends[...]

Jeremy Paxman and the curious incident of the North London Geek

March 27th, 2015

At last night's election debates, Ed Miliband did well, very well. He outperformed expectations, off[...]

Israeli elections mean absolutely nothing for Palestine

March 26th, 2015

In the last few weeks the arteries of my cyberworld have been clogged with articles about the most r[...]

The vitriolic response to Boycott Gardies shows why Nice Girl Feminism is fucked

March 24th, 2015

This Sunday, a new student campaign, Boycott Gardies, was set up in response to a harrowing anonymou[...]

Kids TV characters taught me how to stick it to the man

March 23rd, 2015

When most people talk about who inspired their counter-culture politics, a tired string of names cro[...]

7 Twitter accounts you should hatefollow

March 22nd, 2015

Hatefollow /heɪtˈfɒləʊ/ verb - When you can't help but follow someone on social media, despite how m[...]

I checked my privilege and it's still there

March 21st, 2015

If I wanted to, I could trawl through my life story and spin you the full Margaret Thatcher, grocer’[...]

Tim Lott's annoying but Rod Liddle is a fuckbadger

March 20th, 2015

There are some suitably boring things in the world: other people’s dreams; articles on how social me[...]

A Woman needs a Man like a Fish needs a Bicycle

March 19th, 2015

Weekly feminist cartoons: Check back for more next week. instagram.com[...]

21 pugs who have had it with this Budget nonsense

March 18th, 2015

So after much overexcitement and talk about rabbits coming out of hats, George Osborne has delivered[...]

The Greens are making local government glamorous

March 18th, 2015

In the age of political disillusionment not many of us know who our MP is, let alone who our council[...]

A Plea to everyone who's ever argued about Freedom of Speech

March 17th, 2015

This is a plea. It is a plea to all those who have ever argued about Free Speech, Safe Space, or No [...]

What your voting intentions say about your sex life

March 16th, 2015

Sex and voting are very similar. They’re both private, deeply personal acts, and both generally prog[...]

My school has sent more people to Isis than Oxbridge

March 15th, 2015

A few months ago thousands of Oxbridge hopefuls got their rejection letters. Their dreams forged in [...]

What is The Stepford Student?

March 13th, 2015

Young, politically engaged lefties have a serious image problem. We’re perceived as being censorious[...]

We offered 14 dead white men blowjobs and these were their reactions

March 13th, 2015

I looked up from the dusty innards of some old tome - a treatise on 15th century natural philosophy,[...]

Am I only a feminist to get laid?

March 13th, 2015

I’ve written a lot about the kinds of anxieties and insecurities that I have, and that I feel other [...]

I’m leftwing and I don’t want a free education

March 12th, 2015

Last week Labour announced plans to cut tuition fees to six grand a year. The response was phenomena[...]

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