POSTED BY Ruby Guyatt IN Featured, Media Spotlight ON Dec 9, 2013 | 0 comments

Barrage of complaints about creepy e-cigarette ads

VIP e-cigarette company facing public backlash. Electronic cigarette company VIP are facing a backlash over their cringe-inducing, sexist, TV advertising campaign. ‘I want you to get it out’, purrs a woman wearing a black cocktail dress: ‘I want to see it, feel it, hold it, put it in my mouth.’ While the woman in the advertisement might want ‘to see how great it tastes’, the Advertising Standards Agency (ASA), who have received a barrage of complaints regarding the ad, have...

POSTED BY Emma Corfield IN Featured ON Dec 9, 2013 | 0 comments

Gender segregation at UK universities?

Separate but equal; where have we heard that before? Universities UK, the representative organisation for the UK’s universities, apparently believes that gender segregation is acceptable at British universities. It has claimed that segregation should be permitted in talks by external speakers so long as the women are seated alongside the men and the segregation is left to right rather than front to back. Universities UK (UUK) published a 40-page report, titled ‘External Speakers in...

POSTED BY Sue Tapply IN Featured ON Dec 5, 2013 | 0 comments

Petition parliament to debate hunger

‘You can tell how civilized a society is by how it treats it’s weakest members.’ Increasing public outrage about food poverty has been made clear as in just 24 hours over 70,000 people signed a petition calling for a parliamentary debate on UK hunger and food bank use. In a sign of the mounting pressure on Chancellor George Osborne, ahead of this week’s economic statement, doctors have disclosed a disturbing rise in the number of malnutrition cases diagnosed at English hospitals,...