Frances Quinlan, frontwoman of Philadelphia rock quartet Hop Along, writes lyrics that raise more questions than they answer. Both of the band’s previous albums – 2012’s Get Disowned and particularly 2015’s terrific Painted Shut – have operated like storybooks, but the tales within have scarcely offered neat, satisfying conclusions; Quinlan’s...
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Hamish Inglis examines the possibility of autonomous warfare, with the development of AI weapons.
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When I was a child, nothing worked better to control what little homicidal impulses lay within than building a zoo inexplicably filled with dinosaurs, all of them housed in inescapable pits and dropping visitors one by one into them. There would be screams as guests tried to run from velociraptors...
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I was lucky, as a kid, to be growing up when Disney was going through its second renaissance – quality movies like The Lion King and Hercules were hitting the cinema at a yearly rate, and there was a palpable excitement whenever a new Disney picture was going to be...
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Two Islamic universities in Indonesia are pushing for females to stop wearing niqab face veils as concern grows over the rise of fundamentalism in the country. One university has even threatened the students with expulsion if the ban is not complied with. The niqab is a full veil with a...
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In famed theatre critic Michael Billington’s interview with The Boar last month, he made some comments about the National Theatre under Rufus Norris’ leadership. “There’s a huge bank of plays – British plays, continental plays, American plays – that the National could be looking at, and my argument was that if...
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Sam Easton looks at some of the best TV crossover events in history, from 'ScoobyNatural' to the 'Arrowverse'
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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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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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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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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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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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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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