University – THE MONTHLY MOSQUITO

‘Ethan Scott Brown’ Died Thinking He Had Failed Everyone

For Ethan Scott Brown’s graduation day in December, his happy mother had prepared everything with great care. Tracy Scott had booked a restaurant in Glasgow for a post-ceremony dinner. She’d ordered a cake, bought balloons and wrapped up the new watch she’d bought her son to celebrate the momentous moment – the culmination of four years ofContinue reading “‘Ethan Scott Brown’ Died Thinking He Had Failed Everyone”

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‘Illegal Pathogens’ Smuggled From Wuhan

A third Chinese scientist has been charged with smuggling biological materials into the United States after a University of Michigan student and her boyfriend were caught last week. At Detroit Metropolitan Airport on Sunday, Chengxuan Han was taken into custody and accused of smuggling items into the United States. Police allege Han sent four packagesContinue reading “‘Illegal Pathogens’ Smuggled From Wuhan”

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‘Snowflake’ University Students And Rowing Team Row

‘Mr Floppy’ was one of the arbitrary titles given to members of a university rowing club known for producing Olympians. After learning that rowers were grouped into columns on a purported “toughness sheet” and given names like “Rock Hard” and “Morning Wood,” “Snowflake” students are locked in a dispute with Oxford Brookes University Boat Club.Continue reading “‘Snowflake’ University Students And Rowing Team Row”

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Students Are Trying To Cancel My Bookshop For Selling Literature On Slavery

According to the proprietor of the bookshop, university students have attempted to close it down because it sells books about suicide and enslavement. Tasha Berks has run Bookmark, a second-hand bookshop in Falmouth, for over 20 years, but claims that ‘woke’ students have recently come into her shop to ‘check’ if her collection is ‘racist’.Continue reading “Students Are Trying To Cancel My Bookshop For Selling Literature On Slavery”

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As GCSE Marks Fall by 4.3 Per Cent, Passes Return To Pre-Covid Levels

The proportion of GCSE entries awarded top grades has dropped from last year but is higher than before the pandemic, while students in England were left worse off than those in Wales and Northern Ireland where grade inflation was retained. Hundreds of thousands of teenagers received their GCSE results today in a year when stepsContinue reading “As GCSE Marks Fall by 4.3 Per Cent, Passes Return To Pre-Covid Levels”

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Diane Abbott Loses Labour Whip After Making ‘Deeply Offensive’ Remarks About Jews Not Suffering Racism

Veteran MP Diane Abbott was this morning stripped of the Labour whip amid a backlash at her disgraceful suggestion that Jewish people don’t suffer racism. The former shadow home secretary has been suspended as a Labour MP by the party’s chief whip Alan Campbell while an investigation is carried out. Labour leader Sir Keir StarmerContinue reading “Diane Abbott Loses Labour Whip After Making ‘Deeply Offensive’ Remarks About Jews Not Suffering Racism”

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Students Receive Trigger Warning Over N-Word Use In Huckleberry Finn

A leading university has put a trigger alert on Mark Twain’s classic, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. The 1884 book, a sequel to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, tells the story of a river journey by young Huck Fin and his companion Jim, a black man fleeing slavery. It’s been held up by academics asContinue reading “Students Receive Trigger Warning Over N-Word Use In Huckleberry Finn”

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White Poppies On Remembrance Day Cause Outrage

A university has come under attack for including white poppies in its Remembrance wreaths because veterans fear it will depreciate the red poppy as a representation of the fallen. Students and staff from Leicester University laid more than 50 poppy garlands across Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland in recognition of the local people who made sacrificesContinue reading “White Poppies On Remembrance Day Cause Outrage”

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Sorry, Ed Miliband

It doesn’t matter how much Ed Miliband’s lips tremble, his dad was; as indicated, a far wing highbrow, whose gratefulness to a nation that took him in, extended merely to hoping it might be pulled apart, root by root. The fact that Ralph Miliband was a suburban North London émigré, does not change the reality thatContinue reading “Sorry, Ed Miliband”