John Higgins has won the 2016 Champion of Champions tournament, defeating Ronnie O’Sullivan 10-7 in the final. The Scotsman took the £100,000 top prize and enjoyed another match full of top snooker, just a week after winning the China Championship. For O’Sullivan, it was his first-ever defeat in the history...
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The music industry is overflowing with new talent; mix-tapes and at home produced EPs are being released by the minute so what exactly separates Liv Dawson from other young artists today? Firstly, her debut single ‘Tapestry’ reached number 1 on the UK Viral Chart on Spotify with over 2 million...
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When people ask me who my favourite bands are, I list off the usual culprits as an indie kid lost in modern melancholy, still pointlessly pining for 2006’s second coming. Muse, Foals, Wild Beasts and then the odd local band from my beloved Birmingham. Soon however, I come to the...
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There was an overwhelming sense of disorientation and shame that I felt when I woke up in bed with someone who wasn’t my partner. Just before I went out that night, I was telling some friends how great things were going with my partner. A few hours later they were...
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Largely, the extent to which you’re pressured to think about your future during your time at University depends on the people you surround yourself with. Your friends, flatmates, and even the stranger you share a heart-to- heart with over a pitcher of Eliminator can all shape your idea of the...
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Darkest Dungeon possesses a uniquely crushing sense of dread, the eldritch weight of which permeates everything from its art and sound design to the very mechanics that form the core of the game. To describe Darkest Dungeon is to initially steep oneself in a standard formula of fantasy: “Your ancestral...
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Over 120 people gathered outside the All Saints Church in central Leamington Spa on Friday night, in a public sleep out to raise funds and awareness to support local homeless rough sleepers. The event raised just over £7880. Raised by the funds gathered from the tickets of the event, Helping...
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Warwick Jailbreak raises over £25,000 Warwick Jailbreak took place on the weekend of Saturday 5 November. The challenge was to travel as far as possible in 36 hours without using their own money. The winners were second-year students Alixia Tordjman and Elliot Cervantes going under the name ‘Aeli Hit the...
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Warwick University’s Student Council (SC) have voted in favour of lowering quorum at All Student Meetings (ASMs) from 5% to 2%, at their most recent meeting last Tuesday 8 November. The decision must now be approved by the Student Union’s (SU) Board of Trustees and then the University Council before...
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For the first time in history, both the ATP and WTA tours have had a British player in the top ten. Joe Irwin reports on a new era for British tennis.
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More and more newspapers are training robots to tell data-based stories about sports, business and breaking news. Engineered by the Washington Post’s team, ‘Heliograf’ technology was used to produce short updates on Olympic events for the paper’s live blog and twitter account @WPOlympicsbot. Reports suggest the Post will use the...
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Having witnessed a raucously funny rehearsal of the first acts a few weeks ago, I went into this play’s performance with expectations of a relentlessly funny, farcical comedy. What I was met with was a more sensitive and powerful production than I had anticipated. Absurd Person Singular focuses on three...
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Whoever scheduled the performances in the O2 Institute for the week of 31 October is evidently on a Japanese kick (or it’s just one of those otherworldly coincidences). The Japanese House shared her layered synth melodies on a Monday night while Tuesday was reserved for HONNE, the duo’s name originating from...
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