“I guess we’re still doing the band thing,” lead singer Justin Young reflects as he surveys the London crowd. It seems so. With a recent change in line-up and new album Combat Sports under their belt, this massive Alexandra Palace show marks something of a homecoming for the Vaccines. Having...
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Racism is rife at British universities, and it has been since universities were founded. The main forms of racism can be categorised into three areas: racism amongst students, racism in the curriculum and racist discrimination by or towards university employees. If we are to end these injustices, it is time...
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As the end of exams finally come into sight and we start getting excited about summer, it’s time to look at Warwickshire’s July festivals, the latest instalment of local festivals. If you’re looking to hang around the area during July, then why not take the opportunity to delve into some...
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Katy Lawrence reports on the app which could help you tackle your carbon 'forkprint'.
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Racial slurs, ‘black versus white’ training games and career ending threats – Chelsea’s description of the most recent bout of allegations concerning its youth team as ‘abhorrent’ does not need to be debated. What does need unpicking, however, is the time it has taken for these accusations to surface. These...
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Potentially one of the most well-known – and well-loved – British indie rock bands to have emerged from the past ten years, The Vaccines have just released their fourth album. Combat Sports is a thirty-three-minute jaunt in a classic three-chord Vaccines way, at times vibrant and surprisingly heartfelt. As a...
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My parents’ marriage, or lack thereof is a topic I tend to avoid, a topic that until now I would not have thought had influenced my view on relationships. But it undoubtedly has. Looking back, I don’t even remember my parents being together, so how could my parents’ marriage influence...
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Reece Goodall discusses how we only read political books which align with our ready-formed views, so is there a point to political books?
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The University of Buckingham has vowed to become the first university in the UK to become “drug-free” by forcing students to sign contracts forbidding the taking of drugs on university grounds. As the number of students being disciplined for drug use has risen by 42% over the last two years,...
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New data on The University of Oxford’s admissions shows a lack of progress in attracting students from diverse backgrounds as more than one in four of its colleges failed to admit a single black British student each year between 2015 and 2017.
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Jónas Antonsson is CEO of Raw Fury, a Swedish games publisher specialising in the curation of indie games. He co-founded the company along with ex-Battlefield producer Gordon Van Dyke. The interview took place the week prior to the Games Developers Conference 2018. When asked, his experience of the conference was “on...
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Reece Goodall reviews the sixth series of the popular game show, Taskmaster. Why has the show become so popular, and does the latest series live up to the standards of past series?
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Great improvisation is tough. No other craft puts the onus on the performer quite like improv. Musical Theatre Warwick’s The Improv Musical sees six students improvise a seven-song musical based on a setting and two characters as chosen by the audience. Graham Stott had the unenviable task of acting as...
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