When most people think of festivals, they think of partying, drinking and loud music. But Also Festival – which takes place in Warwickshire in July every year – has recently been named by The Guardian as one of the Top Five festivals ‘for the mind’. And a Warwick graduate, Pauline...
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It would be safe to say that language learning in British schools is less popular than ever. According to figures from the British Council, around three quarters of students took GCSEs in another language in 2002. This figure has now dropped to 47%. In non-selective schools this figure is just...
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If you claim to know your 21st Century cinema, you should know who Steve McQueen and Michael Fassbender are. If you did not know who they were in 2011, however, you would be very much forgiven unless you were talking to someone who was a bit too clued up when...
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With the release of HBO’s recent documentary, Leaving Neverland, Michael Jackson is gaining media attention, and not for the right reasons. The documentary follows the stories of two men, Wade Robson and James Safechuck, who claim to have been groomed and sexually abused by the pop star as children. As always,...
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Reece Goodall reviews the second episode in the new series of Midsomer Murders, Death of the Small Coppers
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When people voted for Brexit, I highly doubt that they had the best interests of our wardrobes in mind. I’m not suggesting that we’ll all be wearing tweed after March 29 (although that wouldn’t be the worst thing to come out of Brexit), but leaving the European Union will have...
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Loneliness is a problem that exists everywhere at university, but so few people pay attention to it because the feeling of being alone doesn’t have a place in the idyllic image of the student world. The university experience is often dubbed as the best years of your life and advertised...
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Midland Red South, the Warwickshire subsidiary of Stagecoach, will be forced to restrict the number of buses it can operate throughout April.
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With social media expanding so rapidly in such a short amount of time, so too has the construct of the celebrity. Sites such as Snapchat and Twitter allow constant access into the lives of those deemed famous. Yet our means of consuming figures who continuously reside under the spotlight has...
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Three years ago, Dave came on our radar, his freestyle videos and his unbridled abilities on ‘Thiago Silva’ proved he could hold his own in the world of grime and rap. Dave, now aged 20, has released his long-awaited debut studio album, Psychodrama (named after a form role-play psychotherapy). But is it as good as we all wanted it to be?
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At the annual Sloane Sports Conference in Boston at the beginning of March, the NBA commissioner Adam Silver touched on some of the challenges the league is facing. He sat down for a 1-on-1 interview with popular sports journalist Bill Simmons and talked about a variety of issues, ranging from...
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Brie Larson’s debut entrance into the Marvel Cinematic Universe has more riding on its shoulders than a typical origin story. Since Samuel L. Jackson’s ‘Nick Fury’ used his final moments in Avengers: Infinity War (2018) to activate an enhanced pager, contacting ‘Captain Marvel’ for help, we expect that she packs...
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Theo Wolf reports on the research which suggest we ditch the toast as it exposes us to more pollution than traffic.
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