Valentine’s Day. Exciting for some, miserable for others and for the rest, simply just an ordinary day. Whatever your current relationship status, I would recommend you comfort yourself with a movie. I mean, who doesn’t want to cuddle up on the sofa with a chocolate box ready to devour regardless...
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London folk band Stick in the Wheel begin their new album with the lively and traditional ‘Over Again’, with its looping guitar melodies, pulsing and vividly textured instrumentation, and a driving rhythm that is both deeply historical and fresh. Almost the band’s statement of intent, this song utilises simple and...
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The 1940’s may rightfully be remembered as this country’s last romantic age. While the decade was beset with warfare and the looming threat of invasion, no other period in recent British history has borne quite so striking a resemblance to the ‘merry, old England’ myth that permeates our native culture....
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Sam Savelli looks at the portrayal of Muslims and Islam in Next of Kin, and explains why it is a problematic depiction.
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This year’s Jailbreak has finished, with the winners travelling 2952.10 kilometres and reaching Santa Cruz de la Palma in Spain’s Canary Islands off the coast of Morocco. The team, named ‘Team Blue Waffle’, consisted of Paula Tel Hidalgo, a first-year Economics student, and Lennart Greiner, an exchange student in the School...
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It's been a year since Donald Trump was elected as President - Isabelle Atkins looks at the results of a study into news coverage of him.
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A report for NGO Hong Kong Watch has found that universities are increasingly restricting freedom of speech and removing outspoken professors.
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Two of our writers go head to head on whether or not Valentine’s Day is a holiday worth celebrating. Georgie Head: After two long months, I am going to be reunited with my boyfriend just one week before Valentine’s Day. He has been travelling in Australia while I have been...
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'Gaming disorder' will be included in the draft version of the 11th International Classification of Diseases (ICD), to provide signs and symptoms to aid the diagnosis of gaming addiction.
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Some genres seem to have no limits. Comedy, science fiction, action, and horror continue to evolve, inspire and produce a regular output of films every year. But the Western, a genre known for its American iconography, examines masculinity and violence on a seemingly finite frontier. It is comparatively rare to...
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With the UCU strikes set to begin over the next few weeks, here is a lowdown of everything you need to know.
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Three years, three locations – South Africa, USA and the UK – but this is the 19-year-old’s first ever tour. Desmond John crossed paths with a musical career unconventionally, being discovered in a Johannesburg studio by an American comedian, taking a chance offer to go to the States and then...
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The perfect ‘date’ night recipe by Kate Preston. Ingredients: 100g pitted dates 1 apple, finely sliced into long segments 2tsp sugar Pinch cinnamon 75g plain flour 25g butter Pinch of salt Approx. 50ml cold water Method: Soak dates in a bowl of boiling water for 20 mins whilst you make...
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