Goodbye Mrs Leadsom: For Warwick’s sake, thank god you quit
John Butler on why Warwick should breath a huge sigh of relief Andrea Leadsom dropped out of the race for Number 10
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Driving a wedge through the future of golf
As many of Golf's finest are criticised for pulling out of the Olympics, Em Gill believes that these players are failing to see the bigger picture.
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Why You Should Be On Team Cap: A Political Argument
Now that all the hype surrounding Captain America: Civil War has essentially died down, it’s time to talk about the more intellectual side of a movie which mainly consists of people hitting each other with magic, arrows, shields, magic fingers… you get the point. For all three people who haven’t...
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Late Fragments: Everything I Want to Tell You (About This Magnificent Life)
Late Fragments: Everything I Want to Tell You (About This Magnificent Life) is a book that first caught my eye a couple of years ago as I was browsing the ‘Recommended for You’ section on Goodreads, perhaps the best companion for any avid reader out there. After reading the short...
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Warwick RAG wins Society of the Year
Warwick’s annual Societies Awards returned on June 25, with Warwick RAG winning “Society of the Year” at the ceremony, held at the Vox Conference Centre in Birmingham. As well as “Society of the Year”, there were a further nine categories, alongside awards for Individual Contribution. For this year’s awards, a...
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London marches: Why the UK too must say ‘Black Lives Matter’
As I drew closer and closer towards the sounds of thundering footsteps and almost mystical chants, I was mesmerised by the sheer number of people walking towards Brixton, hoping their actions would shed light on a situation the black community is all too familiar with. Slowly my strides began to...
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Loophole means EU students could struggle to keep UK residency after studies
International students from the European Union (EU) are at risk of a Home Office loophole disallowing them permanent residence. Generally, European students can apply for permanent residence in the UK after living here legally for 5 years. However, a loophole has been identified allowing the Home Office to challenge these...
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AstroSoc presents: Mercury in transit
Between 12:12 and 19:42 on Monday 9 May, Mercury passed in front of the Sun during a rare astronomical event known as a transit. These occur approximately 13 times each century, with the next taking place in 2019. Transits of Mercury are quite rare, as the planet often passes just...
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‘The Secret Life of Pets’ review
The Secret Life of Pets deals with what happens when you leave your pets at home, and it fashions a playful and fun tale out of it. It’s not anything particularly ground-breaking, but it propels itself forward with such enjoyable momentum and with a lot of gags (most of which...
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Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie
Crack open the bolly; the highly-anticipated film adaptation of the hit British sitcom is everything you’d expect it to be. Flash-forward twenty-six years and nearly forty episodes later, and Saunders has finally brought the show to the big screen. Back in the early-nineties, fresh from her comic success with Dawn...
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Safety measures installed at Cannon Park crossing
Coventry City Council are installing pedestrian refuge islands at the Cannon Park road crossing, after years of both the University and SU pushing for greater safety measures. In 2014, concerns over road safety were raised following the death of Warwick student, Maggie Cheung, who was hit by a lorry outside Tesco....
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Rachel Partington interview: “At some point you’ll find yourself a stranger in a strange land”
I’ll admit it- I’m scared of interviewing Rachel Partington. A student at Bristol Old Vic theatre school, Partington has written a play about the experiences of an Eritrean refugee she met in the infamous ‘Calais Jungle’. In Still Here, soon to be performed at the Edinburgh Fringe festival, she’s recreated...
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The Legend of Tarzan
The Legend of Tarzan is a sequel to a film that doesn’t exist the same way Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland is a sequel to a film that doesn’t exist. Both films assume we know the original story, add flashbacks from the original story, and add a heavy dose of...
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