Homeless California State University students living out of cars
Students at California State University are struggling to cope with California’s high cost of living, with 50,000 students resorting to living out of their cars.
Read More
Archives
Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt review
Having followed the series of Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt since it first appeared on Netflix in 2015, I can say I’m a big fan. Each new season has meant a guaranteed dose of sunshine, despite the show’s at-first-glance traumatic set-up. Now that the final episodes have premiered, I’ll be taking a...
Read More
Upskirting to become a criminal offence
Last Thursday, the invasive act of ‘upskirting’ was finally set to be made illegal under the 2003 Sexual Offence Act after an eighteen-month-long campaign by activist, freelance writer and upskirting victim, Gina Martin, 27. Martin’s campaign began as a Facebook post on social media and quickly materialised into a politically...
Read More
Learn from Literature: South American politics
In One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel García Márquez wrote a foundation myth. He reconfigured reality, weaving a tale that encompassed the history of a continent, shaping the identity of the Columbian people. In a country riven by division, García’s melding of the fantastic with the mundane helped create a...
Read More
The legality of lunar enterprise and moon mining
Everyone’s heading to space! President Trump wants to create a Space Force, and business tycoons like Elon Musk and Richard Branson are striving to make space a commercial venture. When it comes to space, humanity’s first step has always been the Moon – and, where humans go, business is sure...
Read More
Warwick SU confirms Student Officers sat on group chat appeal panel
President Liam Jackson has released a statement on behalf of the SU in response to questions by The Boar relating to the involvement of the Students’ Union in the group chat appeals process.
Read More
The scarcity of internships in the arts sector
For many, a career in the arts seems an unattainable dream. The industry is famously competitive and opportunities to work in it are rare. In other industries, getting a paid internship is a great way to get the experience needed to kickstart a career, but in the arts this is...
Read More
Snow Patrol prove they’ve still got it at sold out Birmingham show following six-year hiatus
Following a six-year hiatus, with last album Fallen Empire’s being released in 2011 and toured in 2012, Snow Patrol have returned to touring following new album Wildness, released in 2018. I was lucky enough to witness them perform backstage nearly a year ago while working at BBC’s Big Weekend in...
Read More
Remembering Subbuteo
Long before FIFA or PES, it was all about Subbuteo - Andrew Kersley celebrates the original football game
Read More
Claire Fox on Warwick, free speech, and the “snowflake generation”
On Thursday 24 January, under the invitation of Warwick Politics Society, Claire Fox gave a talk to students about the nature of free speech, its impact on younger generations today, and Brexit, and spoke to The Boar afterwards.
Read More
Micro-trips: the travel trend to watch for 2019
Is your New Year’s resolution to travel more? Will 2019 be the year that you finally embrace budget travel? Fancy exploring more of the UK this year? If your answer to any of these questions is a resounding ‘yes’, you might just be interested in considering one of 2019’s major...
Read More
The Warwick student set to release crime novel in the summer
Releasing a debut novel is just something else Warwick postgraduate student Reece Goodall can add to his list of accomplishments. Alongside his master’s in French horror films and writing his debut crime novel The Three Killers, Goodall has produced a debut album and various film scores. The opening of The...
Read More
Academic freedom is under threat from political correctness
Oxford Law professors don’t often make it into the news. The last month has been an exception to this, however, as John Finnis – an esteemed expert on jurisprudence – became the latest target of the student crusade against academic freedom and independent thinking. What was his crime, you may...
Read More