Globally, economic inequality between countries has decreased over the last few decades. Yet climate change has impeded progress. Recent research shows that the gulf between the richest and poorest countries is 25 percent wider than it would be in a world without global warming. It is tropical countries that are...
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Amoy Daley takes us through the addictive otherworldly allure of reality TV.
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In the blockbuster fixture of the quarter-finals, Italy face Belgium in a clash of the titans at EURO 2020 this evening. With both sides on six-game unbeaten runs, the second match of the day promises to be entertaining and tactically intriguing in equal measure. Roberto Martinez’s Belgians qualified for the...
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The Italian team, set for their quarter-final against Belgium tonight, performs as a squad greater than the sum of its parts under the reign of accomplished former Manchester City manager Roberto Mancini. It feels wrong to use the phrase ‘greater than the sum of their parts’ for a team with...
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If Spain and Switzerland can replicate the drama of Magic Monday in Saint Petersburg, their quarter-final clash at EURO 2020 could rank among the competition’s greatest games of all time. La Furia Roja opened the week’s action with a topsy-turvy win over Croatia, coming through as 5-3 victors after extra...
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Oxford University Press (OUP) has closed Oxuniprint, marking the final chapter in the publisher's centuries-old printing history. George Vernon explores OUP's history, and examines the reasons for this closure.
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Red Bull driver Max Verstappen put in a dominant performance at the Styrian Grand Prix to win easily, further extending his lead over championship rival Lewis Hamilton in the process. For Mercedes, nothing could be done to even mount a challenge, and behind-the-scenes battles about how the two teams are...
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The week commencing 22nd July 2019 was one of the hottest in Europe in decades. Little did myself, brother or mum know as we trudged through the near 40 degree heat during our holiday, that it would cause a whole world of problems at our departure. Whenever it gets that hot a large storm usually occurs. It did. Then everything went wrong.
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Boar Features editor Celia Bergin evaluates and compares the two recent lesbian historical drama films, finding Park Chan-wook's story of love in Japanese-occupied Korea the better film.
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In the latest Music Box, Reece Goodall looks back at the soundtrack to the original Crash trilogy
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Cardiff University Ladies Cricket Club beat University of Warwick Women’s Cricket Club by 14 runs to take the win in a tense T20 match at Vale CC in Corntown, Glamorgan. With many outdoor matches having been rescheduled due to the pandemic and bad weather, Warwick and Cardiff organised a friendly...
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Reece Goodall looks into why Russia is set to vaccinate animals for Covid-19.
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After the historic sentencing of Derek Chauvin on Friday, Shannon McGuigan looks at the arguments put forwards by both sides and notes the importance of Chauvin's sentence
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