New year, new hair colour?
Always wanted to dye your hair but never been brave enough? Lucy Martin raves about the experience and changing up your look this new year.
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Colleges reject scholarship aimed at ‘disadvantaged white boys’
Colleges reject scholarships for ‘disadvantaged white boys’
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Coventry triple shootings lead to two arrests
Two men, aged 22 and 19, have been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder following three shootings in Coventry.
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The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – Games of the Decade
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt is a game that, by most accounts, takes around 70 hours to complete. On my first playthrough, it probably took me over 100. Conjuring the motivation and effort to begin playing a game of such scale and investment is an immense task in itself –...
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The defining decade: lessons I’ve learned over the last ten years
Sadia Nowshin looks back at the decade. She grew in confidence, lived through her teenage years and achieved more than she ever imagined.
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‘Parasite’ is funny yet powerful, horrifying yet joyful
Reece Goodall reviews Bong Joon-ho's latest cinematic venture, 'Parasite', a horrifying yet joyful thriller.
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The dark side of the fishing industry
There is another factor that is criminally overlooked in modern discussions on the impact our diet has on the environment - the effect of the fishing industry.
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The War of the Worlds review: another poor adaptation of the HG Wells classic
Giles Allen-Bowden discusses where it all went wrong for the BBC's underwhelming 2019 adaptation of The War of the Worlds
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Predictions for the next decade in books
Throughout English lessons at school, we are always urged to consider the context in which a book has been written and discuss how texts are associated with historical and cultural events of that time. Novels and poems from the past are transformed into time capsules and offer us a glimpse...
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Virtue’s Last Reward – Games of the Decade
Virtue’s Last Reward is an intricately structured story, with multiple endings and plot twists. The second game in the Zero Escape series, it provides an experience not dissimilar to its predecessor, Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors, but with new characters and heightened stakes. We follow Sigma, a young man...
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Laddish bravado, a relic from a bygone era: Scouting For Girls live
The O2 Academy Birmingham looks an incredibly optimistic venue for Scouting For Girls to be headlining in 2019. While their noughties hits have aged well (undeniably better than their increasingly problematic band name), the three-piece have since succumbed to the law of diminishing returns, and have struggled to make an impact since 2012’s tepid The Light Between Us spluttered to number 10 in the album charts.
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Does ‘Black Widow’ signal the demise of the MCU?
James Palmer discusses the first trailer for 'Black Widow' and whether it might mean the demise of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
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Reflecting on my first term abroad
It is about 8 degrees outside, already dark at 4 pm, grey and miserable. That's right, I'm back in the UK! I know it sounds like I'm complaining here, but I'm not. Turns out that old adage, "there's no place like home," is absolutely true. I went on my first term a little earlier in August, and I came back in November, so I've been back from my placement at a daily newspaper in Mauritius for a while, but it's taken me about a month to process everything anyway, so here's a little reflection.
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