Author: LSU Media

With the French Presidential elections taking place on the 10th April, all the candidates have begun their campaigns. So, what is the French Election System? Who are the candidates and what are their policies? What is the French System? In France there is both a Prime Minister and a President. The Prime Minister is appointed by the President and are in charge of government. The current PM is Jean Castex. In comparison, the President is the ‘head of diplomacy’, meaning they meet with other heads of state and negotiate treaties in France’s name. They are also the commander in chief…

Meet your Welfare and Diversity Executive Officer candidates – Valen Lollato and Anouska Johnson! See what they had to say about their campaigns when they sat down with Label. Valen Lollato What are the main points of your manifesto? The main points of my manifesto is to first: bring back Cogs. I think Cogs was a very important part of the Union before it was closed down and rebranded into the Lounge. I would love to find an alternative solution that we can reimplement Cogs into the Union and have a bigger capacity for our nights out. Another point in…

Meet your Democracies and Communities Executive Officer candidate – Danny Smith! See what he had to say about his campaign when he sat down with Label. What are the main points of your manifesto? My manifesto is centred around giving the power back to the students. My first point is increased accountability within LSU – I want to make sure the students are at the heart of all the Union’s objectives and hold staff to account so those are being met. I want to overhaul democracy to ensure your voice is heard and that students feel their democracy matters. I…

Let’s meet your Sport Executive Officer Candidates – Ben Clubb and Sam Woodland – and see what they had to say when they sat down with Label and spoke about their campaigns! Sam Woodland What are the main points of your manifesto? My manifesto focusses on three really keen areas. First one: empowering volunteers and giving them the autonomy to do what they want. Second: fostering diversity and inclusion and really working that into a central part of our strategy. The final one: really fuelling the legacy, really thinking about where we’re going to take the Sport EO role in…

With expectations weighting upon women post-partum regarding their careers, appearance and the question of returning to their pre-pregnancy body, Label volunteer, Rebecca Pearson, explores the conversation around female choice after giving birth. The world of fashion has long been fraught with expectations surrounding appearance, perceived beauty and fitting-the-mould. Being so often seen as a “young girl’s” profession, models have begun to ask the question: why does it matter? Famous females, such as Serena Williams and Gigi Hadid, have sparked the conversation about women’s careers post-partum: how giving birth changes a woman’s body in structure and size in order to produce life.…

With February raising questions and conversations about love – how we find it, keep it, and what it actually is – Label volunteer, Olivia Connelly, explores the non-fiction book Conversations on Love by Natasha Lunn and its meditations on love. Conversations on Love is a non-fiction book that delivers an array of different perspectives on what love really is. It includes interviews with guests such as Dolly Alderton the author of Ghosts and Everything I know about love, two best selling novels. For me, I love how honest and realistic the book was on love as it did not sugar coat…

Label’s Culture Editor, Rebecca Pearson, sheds light into the fiasco of Kim Kardashian and Kanye West’s marriage and the façade of celebrity relationships. In the world of the media, the boundaries between public and private became disputable a long time ago. The filtered, edited and romanticised concocted itself into an online world where the private was public. Celebrity break-ups fall into this blurring of divisions, heartbreak being easily warped into a gossip-piece. Most recently, it has been the public breakdown of Kim Kardashian and Kanye West’s relationship that has been plastered across gossip magazines. But what is the issue…

How do we make and sustain habits? Can we prevent our New Year’s Resolutions from becoming wasted and forgotten? Label volunteer, Rebecca Pearson, explores the ideas behind making and keeping to our New Year’s Resolutions. If January is a time of new beginnings, new goals and new habits, February is its reluctant counterpart. Many find the start of a new year the perfect time to play into tradition and create New Year’s Resolutions in a bid to manifest some distant desires of the brain. So, then, why is February so often the graveyard of failed habits and goals that weren’t quite…

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo is just one of Taylor Jenkins Reid’s many books that has topped recent reading interest. Label volunteer, Sydney Tarrant, reviews her book, detailing its main themes and plot points, and exploring the joys of reading it. Evelyn Hugo once dominated the movie industry and now is ready for a tell-all story about her life in the industry. She specifically chooses Monique Grant, an unknown reporter, to write the book, for reasons unknown to Monique. She retells her life, from making her way to LA in the 1950s, and her decision to leave the…