Cost Of Living – A Crisis for Young People

Nancy Eaton writes on the concerns of the Cost of Living Crisis on young people – especially students.

FEATURE: Is Austerity on the Minds of Westminster Again?

The Gown’s Business and Economics Editor, Edward Ferrin, reviews the impact a return to austerity would have, and how the last measures impacted young people.

PREVIEW: Is Austerity on the Minds of Westminster Again?

The Gown’s Business and Economics Editor, Edward Ferrin, reviews the impact a return to austerity would have, and how the last measures impacted young people.

Occupy Belfast: One Year On

BY LAURA WISE This time last year, the media was awash with pictures of the newest campsite in America. Activists, veterans, and the average American, downtrodden by the economic crisis and disheartened with the party political system, formed Occupy Wall Street and took to Zuccotti Park, New York, in their thousands. They refused to move

Forgotten News

BY TARA MCEVOY If 2011 was the year of protest, 2012 has been the year to let the dust settle. This time last year, revolution was sweeping the world – an international youth spurred into action. The Financial Times’ Gideon Rachman wondered if 2011 would rank alongside 1968 and 1989 as a year of global revolt; newspapers,