Stagecoach to increase UniRider bus pass prices
The new price of annual UniRider passes are to be published this summer before the start of the academic year, a spokesperson for the company confirmed to the Boar yesterday.
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A potential super-antibiotic for super-bugs like MRSA
Saraa Kaleem reports on the discovery of a new class of antibiotics which could be used to treat drug-resistant infections like MRSA.
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Universal Basic Income is the best way to ensure future security for students
As a student with absolutely no idea of which profession I would like to enter, I often worry about my future. Indeed, young people from my generation will be the first to be worse off than their parents. House prices are soaring, the NHS is a falling apart due to...
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Literary Figures on Campus
Vincent Loh explores what would happen if key literary figures chose to study on campus today… Yeats on Monday Evening He walks the same way to class every morning. On the way back he always sees stray branches litter the pavements in front of the incomplete Second Coming of...
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Why is the Pro-Trump show Roseanne so Popular?
Iconic American sitcom Roseanne is back on our screens, and it has surpassed all expectations – an audience of 18.4 million people tuned into the revival, making it one of the highest-rated comedies of the decade. Telling the story of the Connors, a working-class American family helmed by outspoken Roseanne...
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Horror Movies and the Exploitation of Mental Illness
For years, mental illness has been the scape-goat of the Horror genre. Films like Shutter Island, Psycho, and Split are popular examples of mental illness being used as a surprise twist or explanation for why a character is violent: they’re just ‘crazy’. This narrative is not only overused, but highly...
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Scientists in the dark about the lack of dark matter
What's the matter? More like, where's the matter? Dan Turley reports on the discovery of a galaxy devoid of dark matter.
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Batshuayi’s Dortmund resurgence and what it means for Conte and Chelsea
Michy Batshuayi's resurgence at Borussia Dortmund has big implications for Antonio Conte, writes Axel Metz
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‘The Inventors of Cinema’: The Lumière Brothers
Louis and Auguste Lumière. You may not have necessarily heard of them, but their aptitude for invention and business would play a major role in the history of filmmaking and ultimately label them ‘the inventors of Cinema’. Both brothers excelled in science at school and had a natural ability to...
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Bishop Nehru’s Elevators: Act I and II – an ascent to fame?
Bishop Nehru’s new mixtape witnesses collaborations with MF Doom and Kaytranada, and the man himself has been called “the future” of rap music by Nas. A name still relatively unheard of however, Bishop Nehru is a slowly rising star and asserts this from the very beginning with the title of...
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Challenging, intimate, entertaining: Ghosts review
Ghosts is one of Henrik Ibsen’s lesser produced plays. Robert Lowe’s production at the Loft Theatre, in which he stars, thankfully resists the urge to depart dramatically from the naturalistic setting Ibsen thrives on. However, the stylistic parameters were still stretched, and the play benefitted from subtle and effective experimentation....
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Universities criticise government scheme to rank academic teaching by graduate salary
Critics argue that vital degrees such as nursing, social work, and policing may be cut because of the courses’ lower earnings potential.
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Lord Baker on Brexit, Corbyn and the UCU strikes
Lord Baker emerges from his previous interview several minutes earlier than we were expecting. “Are we going to go for a drink?” he asks hopefully. Margaret Thatcher’s education secretary clearly has no intentions of conducting a conventional interview and catches us off guard. But we grab our coats and head...
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