In famed theatre critic Michael Billington’s interview with The Boar last month, he made some comments about the National Theatre under Rufus Norris’ leadership. “There’s a huge bank of plays – British plays, continental plays, American plays – that the National could be looking at, and my argument was that if...
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It has been a colourful few weeks on campus with the strike in full force. Amongst the official UCU signs held up by striking staff members were placards with memes on them. Cher and Stewie Griffin could be spotted advocating for fair pensions. Students got creative: a new yellow banner...
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Thirty publishers have written to the Booker Prize Foundation, which judges the prestigious Man Booker Prize, asking it to exclude American writers from the competition. This would mean the reversal of a rule change in 2014 which allowed all novels written in English to be included in the prize, as...
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Strikes at 61 British universities, including Warwick, have been confirmed after University and Colleges Union (UCU) members voted overwhelmingly for strike action over changes to the USS pensions scheme. Talks between the UCU and Universities UK (UUK) concluded Tuesday 23 January without any compromise when the USS negotiating committee sided...
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Former Universities Minister Jo Johnson, acting as a belated Father Christmas, brought us all a present this past Boxing Day in the form of a new series of measures to punish universities that participate in “no-platforming”. Bored of getting along with family members at Christmas (he presumably thought), then why...
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Stuart Croft, VC of the University of Warwick, has written to Universities UK, criticising their plans to change universities' current pensions model.
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If you’re anything like me, you’ve seen at least a couple of Best of Theatre 2017 lists and had that sinking feeling of disappointment and wondered. How did I not know this or that was going on? To avoid this, here’s our guide to the shows which we’re looking forward...
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At the beginning of term, you may have heard about the push at Cambridge University to “decolonise” their literature reading lists and include more BAME writers. This effort was led partly by Lola Olufemi, Women’s Officer at Cambridge SU, who was then targeted by The Telegraph’s headline “Student forces Cambridge...
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Former Labour Party advisor Ayesha Hazarika is someone you would probably expect to see on the sofa of Good Morning Britain rather than at a stand-up comedy gig in which she is the starring act. It may seem a bit of an odd change of career, but, as Hazarika herself...
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