Daisy Foster

Amidst the national refugee crisis, Daisy Forster gives an insight to the all too invisible crisis on our doorstep as she details her experiences helping refugees in Nottingham and her fears regarding a growing sense of hostility toward refugees both socially and institutionally....

Daisy Forster It is a truth universally acknowledged that when feeling down, the best remedies are fresh air and cake. So today when I woke up feeling fed up about life and timetabling stress, I decided that if a walk around campus and a Beeston Brownie couldn’t make me...

The ongoing humanitarian crisis in Yemen has reached breaking point as coronavirus and famine sweep through the population. UNICEF reports that Yemen ‘is the largest humanitarian crisis in the world’ with 24 million people, who make up 80% of the country’s population, in need of humanitarian aid. Many of...

The Easter half term draws closer and we all have one thing on our minds: deadlines. The constant blagging that you’re busy doing ‘research’ to your dissertation tutor is over. The dreaded group presentations have to be endured. We know it’s tough. So, while you persistently glance at your word count...

Annie Eve brought her ethereal folk rock set to Bodega and utterly mesmerized the crowd with her songs of heartbreak and sour relationships. With an immensely popular and much talked about appearance at Glastonbury this summer, it was a sin how few people turned up to see Annie Eve...

La Traviata began with an ethereal full moon beamed on to the backdrop of Nottingham’s Theatre Royal and a polite notice that Hye-Youn Lee was unwell and Anna Jeruc-Kopec was to play the role of Violetta. As the silhouette of Violetta appeared and the murmuring of the audience ebbed away Jeruc-Kopec made sure no one would be disappointed by the...

It’s mid-Movember and the ‘staches are starting to come through full and thick. What better way to celebrate the fruition of facial hair than with some moustache related music? Jimi Hendrix – ‘Machine Gun’ Whilst this twelve-and-a-half-minute epic starts with clean, whooshing guitar effects, Hendrix still brings the fuzz...