Marie Buchan is a mother of eight from Birmingham who has been on the receiving end of fierce criticism since her TV debut on Benefits Britain: Life On The Dole in 2015. There, she spoke about claiming benefits for herself and her eight children. Earlier this month, she was in...
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A rape trial in Cork, Ireland in November triggered a series of feminist protests, after it was reported that the 17-year-old complainant’s underwear was used as evidence that she gave consent. “You have to look at the way she was dressed. She was wearing a thong with a lace front.”...
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If you think that Christmas and rock music don’t go together, consider this: glam rock band Slade’s ‘Merry Xmas Everybody’ is credited with popularising the yearly battle for the Christmas Number One here in the UK. Unfortunately, the song is so overplayed that it’s estimated that up to 42% of...
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How does one begin to describe KatieJane Garside? Frontwoman of folk noir duo Ruby Throat, she began her musical career in 1989 in punk outfit Daisy Chainsaw, aged just 18. Since then, her career has been characterised by a cycle of embracing a degree of public engagement for a period...
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Last week, it was reported that there are 132,000 less EU nationals working in the UK than there were a year earlier, the biggest annual drop since the Office for National Statistics (ONS) began conducting its Labour Force Survey in 1997. The fall in numbers has been linked to Brexit,...
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Sarah Staniforth explores the potential of using VR technology to treat mental health disorders.
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26-year-old Fatimah Warner, better known as Noname, rose to hip-hop stardom after she contributed a verse to Chance the Rapper’s 2013 mixtape Acid Rap, back when she went by the alias of Noname Gypsy (she later omitted “Gypsy” after being informed of its racialised connotations). In July 2016 Warner released...
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For most, Halloween is a campy, playful occasion: an excuse to eat too much sugar and have fun dressing up. For a minority, however, Halloween is more about getting in touch with your Goth side. Characteristic of this approach is celebrating by watching horror movies and listening to gloomy music...
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Running from October 5–14, the Birmingham Comedy Festival is an independent festival primarily devoted to stand-up comedy. One of the largest independent art festivals in the region, it has been running annually since 2001. The majority of the events are ticketed, but on the two Sundays of the festival, the...
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The famous ‘Warwick Bubble’. Consisting of Warwick campus and Leamington Spa, the ‘Warwick away from Warwick’ where most undergraduates choose to live in their second year. In the bubble, Warwick students immerse themselves in all things warwick – POP!, SU societies and underlying fear of what Coventry has to offer....
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Sarah Staniforth shares her experience of the reality of mental health research as part of the Undergraduate Research Support Scheme at the University of Warwick.
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Thunderpussy is a four-piece rock band hailing from Seattle, Washington. Formed in 2013, and heavily influenced by classic rock legends like Led Zeppelin and Aerosmith, Thunderpussy manages to sound both fresh and nostalgic. But while they have the swagger of the stadium-filling hair metal bands of the 80s, they haven’t...
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In recent days, Boris Johnson has divided fellow politicians and the public alike with his words in a Telegraph column on Denmark’s new ‘burqa ban’, which makes the wearing of a garment that hides the face punishable with a fine. Although the law is ostensibly religiously neutral, it is primarily...
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