Brazil. When I say that word, what do you think of? Carnival? Naked ladies dancing on the street? Football? Beaches? Poverty? I’m sure that if I had asked you this question last year, these are the answers I would have received. Now, the answers are more varied; corruption, Zika virus,...
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Update: As of 11 July, Andrea Leadsom is no longer in the running to be Prime Minister, having pulled out of the race. Theresa May is the new Prime Minister of the UK. Andrea Leadsom, a Warwick graduate, is in the running to replace David Cameron as Prime Minister. Leadsom,...
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Consumers already have the ability to customise their smartphones, whether it be through the selection of specific apps or picking out cases. Now imagine taking the element of customisation several steps further – that is Project Ara. The intention is to make it relatively easy and straightforward for the handset...
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We can all be considered as honorary members of the so-called “selfie generation”, existing in a society in which figures as apparently disparate as Kelly Brook and Hillary Clinton are in the grip of a (somewhat) narcissistic urge for social media self-aggrandisement and public affirmation. Anointed by Oxford Dictionaries’ editors...
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On 2 and 3 July, Warwick hosted the Typhoo National Junior Athletics Championships. Daniel Thompson reports from a great advert for disability sport.
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You’ve definitely seen it on your way into campus. A black, shadowy figure cemented into the turf outside the new bus complex. I have to admit when I first saw it, it looked like a prank, but it is actually a part of Laura Ford’s “Days of Judgement” sculpture series....
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Let’s be honest, street art is kind of the coolest. Don’t get me wrong, I can spend all day (and have) in a museum, appreciating everything from ancient artefacts to Dali’s surrealist paintings. However, you have to admire the talent and dedication that goes into creating street art in the...
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Maria Aberg returns to the RSC to direct a lurid, fantastical production of Christopher Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus. By now, most of us know the story – an ambitious scholar makes a fatal deal with Lucifer’s agent Mephistopheles. In exchange, he receives near limitless power, and meets a tragic demise. Aberg’s...
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Any book lover will be familiar with the joy of buying a new book. The shiny new cover, the smell and feel of its pages, even the weight of it in your hands; all things that the eReader can never give us. That’s why, I’m sure you’ve heard, a bunch of us initially...
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The new Beauty And The Beast teaser trailer is out and it has stirred up the internet. Directed by Bill Condon and starring Emma Watson as Belle, it received an impressive response, breaking records and out-shining the much anticipated second Star Wars trailer from 2014 which reached a record breaking...
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For first year undergraduates, who identify as somewhere on the LGBT+ spectrum, the University of Birmingham has provided the option of “LGBT+ only” accommodation. Many more universities across the UK are now campaigning for the same, including York and Central Lancashire. These appeals come just before The National Union of...
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There is no topic more potent than politics to pit people against one another. ‘Brexit’ is a topic that has polarised our nation. It hasn’t been the first and it won’t be the last. In these instances, we should look to what around us is capable of swaying our opinions. The...
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Brock Turner’s victim spoke truly when she claimed she was everywoman. She voices a story of rape that our society doesn’t want to hear. Rape is constantly scattered across our newspapers. We are constantly told of women being savagely raped by criminals, by psychopaths and by sexual offenders, but never by...
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