Islamic banking and finance have spread across the Western world, with many banks such as Citibank offering Islamic-compliant services. Throughout the 1970s, a revival of Islamic banking throughout the Middle East and the expansion and growth of investments into cities such as Dubai and Doha have resulted in increasing investment...
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"Watching 'This Time with Alan Partridge', I often felt I’d never seen Coogan better or Partridge funnier." Theo Wolf reviews Alan Partridge's return to TV
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Habbo Hotel, for those unaware, was an online virtual reality game similar to Club Penguin. For much of my childhood, I played via the game – and they were arguably the best years of my life. Habbo Hotel at its prime was the best game ever created. Trying to explain...
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It’s February, and finalists are beginning to feel the heat. Essay deadlines are looming; dissertations are getting serious; an unknown world beyond graduation awaits. But for Sam Cochrane, a third-year history student, time has been compressed. His essays are done; he’s already moved to London, albeit only temporarily. The principle...
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Between 1999 and 2017, the percentage of under-16s experiencing any mental disorders has risen from 11.4% to 13.6%. With over half a million people attending university, the pressure is showing to be dangerous. The Guardian’s 2017 Student Experience Survey revealed that 87% of first year students admit to poor mental...
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“I wanna be loved by you…nobody else but you” – sings Marilyn Monroe in the 50-year-old classic, Some Like It Hot. The song could not have been more suited to her, she who wanted to be loved for herself just by one man, and instead was loved for her image...
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The cases of animals caught in plastic has been rising in Warwickshire for three years, the RSCPA reveals.
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TV used to be considered to be a tool to inform as well as entertain, although it appears to have shifted away from that mission in recent years. And even when it tries, it is a source of controversy – the Society of Authors (SoA) has seen a rise in complaints...
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Is the King dead? This is perhaps the fundamental question left to us in the dying embers of the NBA regular season. This hasn’t been the LeBron we’re accustomed to seeing, the relentless warrior-robot that consumes elite competition with the ease that most of us usually reserve for mundane things,...
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Before I began my year abroad, I had no idea what to expect. Five months later, and I am now about to embark on the second half of my German adventure. I’m a lot more aware of what my next semester in Mannheim will hold. Most of the advice...
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Arguably, ‘theory’ just means applying a certain kind of thinking to a text and normally if you’re analysing a text, you are applying a theory such as Marxist theory or feminist theory. Often, we may feel that we are forcing a text to fit into the principles of a theory,...
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The universal basic income (UBI) scheme in Finland has come to an end, and news outlets have, more often than not, placed more emphasis on the fact that people remained unemployed, rather than the fact that they were happier, less stressed, and more optimistic about their future. It has been...
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Theo Wolf interviews the founder of Coventry's Phil Silvers Archival Museum and discusses the work and legacy of this American comic hero
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