Unwrapping the Easter Holiday
Writer Giles Allen- Bowden shares his personal experience about growing up and celebrating the Easter holiday.
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Ready Player One: Review
When you pitch a film that’s all about pop culture, if you want to do it well, you’re going to need the rights to a lot of IP. And who better to get those rights from than the man who owns a good chunk of them? Steven Spielberg. It feels...
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Is Fall Out Boy’s Mania here to save rock and roll?
It may not be Saturday but that doesn’t mean the night’s going to be any less of a thriller. It’s the 27th of March and Birmingham Arena is filled with fans ready to dance – dance to Fall Out Boy, the emo pop-rock quartet from Chicago, as they begin their...
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Is there a ‘right’ way to interpret a text?
One of the pleasures of being an English Literature student is never really being ‘right’. Our essays are marked not on what we say but how well we say it. Interpreting a novel, play or poem is to look at the themes, language and context of it and put forward...
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ESA’s plans for a home amongst the stars
Dan Turley reports on ESA's mission, Ariel, with the aim of finding and characterising exoplanets, and potentially find us a home amongst the stars.
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‘Hell’s Waiting Room’: review of Macbeth at the RSC
The fact that our two national companies have proven themselves incapable of producing a satisfying production of Macbeth says little for the state of Britain’s theatre scene. Of course, Macbeth is by no means a play easily conquered: many of history’s finest actors – including Gielgud, Richardson, Laughton, and O’Toole...
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POP! cancelled until further notice as Copper Rooms undergoes renovation
The university will invest in the region of £150,000 in the new plans, allegedly including a mural at the back of the Copper Rooms dedicated to Disco Dave.
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Is university actually worth it?
Every year, thousands of people like ourselves leave school and decide to go to university in pursuit of a degree. In a world where it is becoming increasingly competitive to get a job, university for many is the natural step to take after completing school in the hope of standing...
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Where does April Fool’s Day come from?
Reece Goodall looks through the origins of April Fool's Day.
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