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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For most students, renting a property is one of the first-time life experiences university provides. Yet it has become increasingly apparent that student housing is descending into crisis. From the ever-rising cost of living to the declining living standards, finding a suitable place to live off-campus at university has become...
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For me, the beginning of 2019 did not inspire resolutions of the academic, social or personal kind. My already-failed goal was to stop swearing this year. Personally, I see resorting to foul language as a sign of weakness rather than strength but I utterly failed at changing the habit. I...
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Since graduating from the Warwick Writing MA four years ago, Charlotte Salter has published her debut novel, The Bone Snatcher, released her second book, Where the Woods End, and is working on the third of this “spiritual trilogy” of dark children’s fantasy. We discussed the joys of writing angry young...
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Jana Sopf explores a new study which suggests you can learn a foreign language in your sleep.
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To celebrate International Women’s Day, we brought together three of Warwick’s most influential women in the arts. Eve Allin and Hetty Melrose are theatre-makers, and co-founders of Nettle Theatre which creates feminist work for and about 21st-century women; Lanaire Aderemi is a spoken word performance poet, an artist in residence...
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The University of Warwick hired “external security support” costing £4,194 for the Reclaim our University student protest on campus on 6 February, a Freedom of Information request sent by The Boar has revealed. When asked why the University spent money to hire external security in addition to campus security staff, and...
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Trigger warnings seem to be inescapable nowadays – frequently cropping up before social media posts, films, articles and, frequently, plays. It’s normal to find a paragraph on the website of a theatre company, describing the ‘emotive content’ featured in specific plays. To many people, this isn’t a cause for annoyance....
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If you’re a games developer, you probably live in fear of the glitch – a slight or sudden malfunction that, although normally temporary, can impact a game’s playability to an insurmountable degree. However, although bugs can be a nuisance, they’re not always game-breakers. No, on the contrary, some glitches were...
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