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The BFG

I’ll be quite frank with you – I know that I read Roald Dahl as a kid, and I recall enjoying the tales of Charlie Bucket and Willy Wonka, Matilda and the Witches, but I don’t remember ever having read The BFG. It’s possible that I may have done, but...
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By , Jul. 22, 2016

Ghostbusters

Call off the trolls; Paul Feig’s female-led reboot of the 1980s film is great fun and, dare I say it, better than the original. Back in October 2014, when Paul Feig confirmed he was making a reboot of Ghostbusters, Ivan Reitman’s 1984 supernatural action comedy, it took less than two...
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By , Jul. 19, 2016

11 Times Shakespeare Understood Student Life

They say there is a Shakespeare quote for pretty much every situation and emotion – but how about the university experience? This is a collection of Shakespeare quotes for those times when a reaction gif or a plethora of emojis would usually be employed to describe the highs and lows...
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By , Jul. 18, 2016

Beyond black and white: in defence of nuance

By all accounts the last few weeks has been something of a tumultuous time in British politics; a veritable shitstorm that, as every vaguely sentient organism has pointed out by now, makes the likes of Game of Thrones and House of Cards look like an episode of Teletubbies by comparison....
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By , Jul. 17, 2016