On Sunday 10 February, the 72nd British Academy Film and Television Awards – the last major ceremony before the Oscars – drew its lowest TV audience in six years. This year, BBC1’s coverage of the Baftas was watched by 4.5 million people – 500,000 people fewer than last year. On a night of joy and disappointment, bad jokes, boring speeches, and nothing for Stan & Ollie, who were the real winners and losers at the Royal Albert Hall?
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Stephen Jackson investigates whether apps like Sweatcoin encourage people to get fit by paying for their exercise
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Literature enables us to empathise with animals as well as understand how key their relationship is with humans. Taking the viewpoints of the animals themselves or using a bird’s eye view to demonstrate their hardships, literature creates a tangible way of viewing animals as the sentient beings they are. While...
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How does one fall in love? At first glance, it seems like a simple question. From the wonderful and yet terrifying knots in your stomach to the shivering anxiety in your voice as you try to say the right words but always envision yourself slipping up in some way, most...
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On the final day of the Warwick Economics Summit, former Vice President of the European Commission, Professor Joaquín Almunia, gave a talk examining the current issues facing the European project. In the past, the EU played an important role in “building peace, prosperity, and welfare, through shared democratic values and...
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I’ll let you into a secret. I enjoy watching the first Tomb Raider film. Yes, the one with Angelina Jolie and Daniel Craig which involves the Illuminati, an archaic talisman and is really into planet rotations. That said, I dare anyone to watch that film and claim that they didn’t...
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Claire Coulthard reports on her experiences of living plastic-free for a month.
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I am a firm believer in write what you know. If you are planning to write about something you have no experience of, it will show in your characters and in your plot line. Why not just go and experience it? However, I know there are limits. Fantasy is one...
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Dr Michael Scott will celebrate his recent appointment as Professor, setting out his vision for the study, teaching and communication of the ancient world in the 21st century.
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The release of unedited video footage of the MAGA hat-donning high school students and a Native American veteran has brought outrage in right-wing circles. As some accuse the mainstream media of blatant “false reporting”, one viewer even commented “CNN and MSNBC owe an apology to those sophomores. Oh wait, they’re Leftists...
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What is this season’s hottest fashion trend? Well, if you follow the news, it would appear that blackface is back – Gucci, Prada and a Katy Perry fashion collection have all recently been forced to recall products evoking blackface after a large social media backlash. Despite statements stating that it...
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A foray into other art forms introduces a range of pretensions from both critics and fans and, just as equally as they may be thrust into success in the art world due to their previous achievements, there is the urge on the behalf of others to ridicule this privileged position....
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If you were lucky enough (or unlucky, depending on what you saw) to have discovered the wonders of websites like Wattpad or Tumblr in your tween-to-teen years, you will have experienced the vast range of fan fiction on offer. From boy bands to Harry Potter and everything in between, there...
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