Warwick students break blanket fort World Record
Guinness World Records have confirmed an attempt made by several Warwick students to build the World’s Largest Blanket Fort, confirmed as 432.16m²
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The shows we want to see return in 2019
As a new year begins, we can look ahead to lots more news shows and old shows returning. But what about the shows that aren't making it back on the box this year? Four of our writers tell us what shows they would like to see return in 2019.
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UK university students fined £534,000 in three years
Students at universities across the UK have been fined £534,000 from 2015 to 2018, with the top reason being antisocial behaviour, a Freedom of Information (FoI) request by The Independent has revealed.
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Warwick’s Very Own: Ellie Dixon
Ellie Dixon came to university a keen mathematics student, from the city of Cambridge and with a hobby that she didn’t think would become anything bigger: music. The Warwick third-year began performing at the age of thirteen after undertaking GCSE Music lessons which brought together her piano-playing and newfound vocal...
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Education reforms favour private school students, figures show
New official figures have revealed that the Conservative Party’s education reforms are giving private school pupils a higher chance to enter further education and various careers by allowing them to sit easier GCSEs. Research into the exams chosen by private schools and data from parliamentary answers shows that private schools...
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Blackfishing is exploitative and should not simply be viewed as millennial over-sensitivity
What is blackfishing? Well, simply put, it is exploitative and wrong. To give a definition, it is a term used for when a non-black person uses make-up or unnatural tanning methods to alter their complexion in order to make themselves look black. Additionally, they may, surgically or using make-up, alter...
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Holmes & Watson: Review
Arthur Conan Doyle’s legendary detective has known many faces throughout his life, and Will Ferrell is the latest with a comedic take on the character. Or, at least, that’s how it should be – Holmes & Watson is a dreadful watch that fails to conjure up many laughs, wasting its...
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Masculinity vs. femininity: how the ideals have changed
The representation of female and male roles and dominant gender identities throughout literature offered us insights into how relations in society existed. These presentations changed with the passage of time, as classic literature often has hegemonic masculinity involving the subordination of women. However, as time progressed, the character of the strong,...
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That shrinking feeling
Reece Goodall reports on a new technique to shrink objects to the nanoscale, and some of the fascinating implications it may have.
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UCL to close its Qatar campus
University College London has recently stated that its Qatar campus will shut down in 2020 following concerns regarding the future success of the overseas outpost model. A spokesperson at UCL said that the reform was part of the institution’s 2034 strategy, “which from 2020 will see the university delivering all...
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Trusting economists has never been harder
Economics, A Very Short Introduction by Partha Dasgupta discusses Trust in only the second chapter. Given that this book was my first introduction to the field and I did not know what to expect, I believe I may be forgiven for having questioned the worth of naming the entire chapter...
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The benefits of doing a reading challenge
With the end of another year, one of the things I feel very grateful for is the successful completion of my annual reading challenge. This is my first reading challenge I have finished in the history of my two years and around four months old love for reading. I exceeded...
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Are we facing a climate-change apocalypse?
“Right now, we are facing a manmade disaster of global scale, our greatest threat in thousands of years: climate change. If we don’t take action, the collapse of our civilisations and the extinction of much of the natural world is on the horizon.” These were the words spoken by famed...
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