CANTA Magazine

Rick Giles is a pretty unassuming fellow. His clothes match his rural origins, a woollen jumper with a simple pattern but there is something about him which just doesn’t gel.
It could be his habit of frowning when he disagrees with something, it could be that slightly nasal accent that sounds just a little bit like [...]

Ricky Gervais created a character that everyone who has ever worked in an office or voted for Steve Jukes knows painfully well.
He is that man or woman who should never, ever be put into management. Why?
1. He is lazy, so will do the very minimum work while concentrating on his own comedy series/small business [...]

Political corruption is an insidious thing. It takes a while to build, like plaque slowly eating away at your teeth. Wherever you get power and money for good, you get corruption siphoning off the power and money to shadowy, dark agendas. A healthy democracy acts as a type of…regular dental hygiene, flossing and brushing out [...]

Last semester we established that non-human animals have rights, now apparently we have to question whether humans have rights.
Putting aside the eternal issues with love (abortion) and the just war, it is not exactly the hardest question in the world.
Well, that is if you are not a Nazi.
Nazi’s tend to have a much more exclusive [...]

(Dating advice included!)

At every university party now, the same debate seems to arise. The one where fourteen semi-literate climate change believers take on the one ACT on Campus kid with the bundle of pages he has printed off the Climate Debate Daily website.
There is something particularly detestable about climate change deniers. It is perhaps the same hatred [...]

Once upon a time, on a mount far, far away, a young Jewish carpenter said this to his flock: “You have heard that it was said, ‘An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth.’ But I tell you, do not resist an evil person. If someone strikes you on the right cheek, [...]

The Hippy examines issues of disability

The Hippy likes bikes