Croydon IFF welcomes new entries for this year’s festival

(Published in Croydon Guardian August 2014, for more see ‘Publication Portfolio’)

Croydon International Film Festival welcomes entries for this year’s event

Gabriel Samuels

Entries for this year’s Croydon International Film Festival have been flooding in from budding filmmakers across the borough, with the festival itself due to take place over two nights in October.

Driverless Car revolution comes to UK…a fad or the future of motoring?

(Published in Kensington and Chelsea Today, August 2014)

By Gabriel Samuels

Drivers might be glad to learn that the tedium and frustration of languishing in traffic on the Kensington High Street on a Friday evening could soon be a thing of the past.

It was announced last week the use of driverless, automated cars could finally be tested on British roads next year, meaning that before too long you might be able to kick back in the front seat and read a book, instead of having to take constant control of the wheel.

Theatre-inspired art exhibition arrives in Chelsea

 

https://spectrarts.wordpress.com/2014/08/01/theatre-art/

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Watching TV to unwind makes you feel bad about your life, scientists find

By Gabriel Samuels

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(All Kensington and Chelsea Today articles available under ‘Publication Portfolio’)

We’ve all been guilty of this at some time or another. After a long, taxing day at the office, there seems like no greater pleasure than to flop down in an armchair and stick on a boxset of that favourite TV show you’ve been dying to know the ending of, or to unwind while having a play on the Xbox or PS3.

Small Music Venues thriving in Kensington and Chelsea

http://www.kensingtonandchelseatoday.co.uk/young-chelsea/out-and-about/pwyt8jwwq9.html

Gabriel Samuels

There’s nothing quite like seeing live music here in London. The atmosphere, the intensity and the variety of music on offer combine to make this one of the best cities on the planet to go gigging.

Search for Young Poet Laureate for London now on

http://www.kensingtonandchelseatoday.co.uk/news/local-news/axqvipc3zw.html

If you’re under 25 and fancy yourself as the next Ted Hughes or Carol Ann Duffy, this could be for you.

The hunt for a new Young Poet Laureate for London is well underway, and the winning entrant could be found somewhere here in Kensington and Chelsea.

InTRANSIT Festival hits Kensington and Chelsea

Theatre delivered from an abandoned skip, a faked wedding reception, and the vocal drawing-up of A People’s Manifesto – not usual sights on a typical day in the Royal Borough.

Unis must keep their hands off Student Papers

Photo: Durham University

If there’s one question every university newspaper editor across the country should be asking themselves, typically whilst doggedly grinding their way through a lengthy InDesign and WordPress session on deadline night in the depths of the student union, it is thus: “Is this paper the voice of our students?” The answer won’t always be ‘yes’. Indeed, the student editor by nature should never be entirely satisfied with their work: publications must always try to expand the scope of their investigations, to probe more meticulously and engage their readership more fully. But it’s when editorial choices start to be transferred out of the hands of students, that alarm bells should really begin to sound.

Durham suffers in Times Reputation rankings

There was no place for Durham in the latest World University Reputation rankings, despite it only recently retaining its top 100 status in the overall World Rankings.

The World Reputation Rankings, curated by The Times Higher Education supplement, are put together annually using a global invitation-only academic survey.

DUSTOPS has success with Trafficking Awareness Week

(Published in Palatinate Feb 2014)

Durham’s Human Trafficking Awareness Week invited students to a range of events aimed at highlighting the continuing problem of modern day slavery in the North East.

The programme, which took place two weeks ago, was hosted by Durham University Stop the Trafficking Of People Society (DUSTOPS), and included several fundraising events, a night of short film screenings, and culminated with a public petition signing at the Palace Green Debating Chambers.

It has been estimated that 10,000 slaves currently live and work in the UK, many of those in the North East, prompting DUSTOPS to emphasise the fact that “slavery is something that happens on our doorsteps.”