AJ Tracey (real name Ché Moran) had a great 2016. With solo bangers like ‘Pasta’ and ‘Buster Cannon’, as well as features on Reekz MB’s ‘23’ and Coco’s ‘Big N Serious’, this Ladbroke Grove-born rapper has quickly made a name for himself on the UK grime scene. Now on his...
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For many LGBT-affirming Muslims in the UK, their sexuality is not only a taboo, but also a cause of constant fear. Victims of both Islamophobia and homophobia, they are some of the most vulnerable members of our society. It is a reality that often goes unacknowledged, with the tensions between...
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Film and travel are inexplicably intertwined. Before social networks such as Instagram projected travel envy onto us all in our daily lives, the main inspiration to travel came from books and films. However, while books can paint a mental image for us (hands up who’d love to travel to Hogwarts?),...
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Ilia Maniki interviews student filmmaker, Ben Meads, whose film, Disconnection, was screened at the National Student Film Festival.
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Warwick University notes no further anti-Semitic incidents this year despite figures from Community Security Trust (CST) showing an increase in such hate crimes on university campuses, with 41 incidents reported in 2016, compared to 21 in 2015. These unchanged levels of anti-Semitism come after several students and societies, including Warwick...
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The warm-up to yesterday's Varsity Rugby finale saw Premiership leaders Wasps host Gloucester, with Jimmy Gopperth the star man
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Campaigning for this year’s Students’ Union Spring Elections started at 9am this morning, with voting for candidates opening at 9am on Wednesday 1 March. The full-time 7 Sabbatical Officer roles are up for grabs, alongside the wide range of Part-Time Officer roles as well as Warwick’s delegates for the National...
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Tarell McCraney, an honorary Warwick graduate, won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay at last night’s Oscars. McCraney co-wrote the screenplay for Moonlight, a coming-of-age tale about a black American coming to terms with his sexuality, with director Barry Jenkins. The screenplay is based of McCraney’s own play, In...
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This month sprung itself upon me quite unexpectedly, and amongst the flurry of dissertation deadlines, essays and shifts at work, it almost could have passed me by. Despite this, LGBT+ History Month managed to take on a new meaning for me this year. In the past, despite defining somewhere in...
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LGBT+ History Month (HM) and Pride both create spaces in which LGBT+ culture can be celebrated openly, and in defiance of those that would rather these ‘lifestyle choices’ remained in the bedroom or – better yet – the closet. As people come around to the fact that those who identify...
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Compared to school, family life and work, life at university is a fairly sexualized place. For most people it is the time after moving out of your parents’ house, and before getting married, where you can be free to explore without prying eyes. If you are not heterosexual this means...
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A survey by Times Higher Education (THE) has found that 48% of academics did not believe students were adequately prepared for higher education due to the lowered requirements for entry into university, with one lecturer commenting that some students were “almost illiterate”. Only 24% of academics surveyed thought their students...
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Anthony McGill has won the 2017 Snooker Shoot-Out, being Xiao Guodong in the final and becoming the first-ever ranking winner of the tournament. The competition sees players battle in a one-frame shoot-out, lasting either until the table is cleared or ten minutes have passed. There is a shot clock –...
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