So the results are in, and it’s an incredible and depressing first for a Star Wars film – Solo is a box-office bomb. The franchise and name recognition failed to save the movie, with middling reviews and a lack of fan enthusiasm. The previous Star Wars film, The Last Jedi,...
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The University of Reading has told critics of the University's plans to offer scholarships to up to 14 refugees in the local area to “jog on” after apparently receiving some negative feedback from students and the public.
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As students, the news of Trump’s Trade war looming seem fairly distanced from our everyday lives. However, as reports of a trade war in the makings grow – is it perhaps time for the public, and students, to take a potential trade war seriously? So naturally we start with the...
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Little known fact: every time there is a debate about historical accuracy in the media, literally every single history student, lecturer or academic collectively celebrate, as their much-maligned subject for once receives mainstream relevance and recognition. Recently the gaming world has been subject to such a maelstrom. The scandal: EA...
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Universities across the UK are offering free tutoring for disadvantaged school children in order to improve diversity in higher education. 35 higher education institutions are using part their budget from widening participation to pay online tuition for GCSE and A-level students.
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Sam Savelli reviews the third season of Channel 4's Humans, which tells the story of the struggle faced by newly conscious synths in a world of unsympathetic humans
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George Bailey explores whether science could explain the existence (or lack thereof) of dragons.
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Warwick District Council distributed an enforcement notice to Kevin Murphy, owner of Murphy’s Bar on Regent Street in Leamington. He was asked to remove the decorative superhero statues outside the Grade II-listed bar, to which Murphy had appealed, but ultimately conceded.
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As the curtains closed on MMA’s most important and spectacular fight card of the year so far, UFC 226, Daniel Cormier provided an iconic moment that will be imprinted for years to come into the already saturated history of the sport. When the dust settled on an electrifying night in...
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Described as a ‘modern-day message in a bottle’ by the San Francisco Chronicle, BookCrossing is an online book club which encourages the exchange of books across the entire world. First launched in April 2001 by Ron Hornbaker and Bruce and Heather Pederson, BookCrossing is a service which allows you to...
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Reece Goodall explains Keeler's Theorem, the mathematical theorem created purely for the benefit of a TV sitcom.
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Next up we have Warwick Comedy with their sketch show Where’s the Trampoline? What’s the concept? It doesn’t matter how far you fall; what matters is how high you bounce back. Where’s the Trampoline? is a fast-paced sketch show centred around the feeling of falling, bouncing, and that awesome thing where...
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Without a doubt, my year abroad changed my life. I’d lived independently at university for two years, yet there’s something about being thrown to the other side of the world and having to sort everything out for yourself that changed everything. Putting myself in the deep end was the life...
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