When it comes to comedy podcasts, it is increasingly a crowded field. All across the humour landscape, artists are attempting to find their niche in the market. Whether it be James Acaster and Ed Gamble talking food in Off Menu, or Steve Coogan converting classic Alan Partridge to oasthouse-based podcast...
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Spotify arrived relatively late to podcasts, officially adding them to its service in 2015. While still less popular than Apple Podcasts, which started back in 2012, Spotify has surpassed other more established podcast apps such as Podcast Addict and Overcast, claiming the number 2 spot with an estimated 28% of...
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I’ll get to the point straight away here. That blue-faced, sea monster lookalike with terrible hair who has invaded my Snapchat should be tied and bound, sealed in Pandora’s box, slapped with a first-class stamp on and thrown on the first Royal Mail plane to Timbuktu. This is the worst...
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45-year-old Vahid Beheshti had just completed the 70th day of his hunger strike on Wednesday 3 May 2023. He is a British Iranian journalist who is using this hunger strike to pressure the UK government to consider the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as a terrorist group. He insists that...
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So the worst kept secret in media is out. After a damning report into rule breaches around conflict of interest, BBC chairman Richard Sharp is out barely two years into his four-year term. It seemed inevitable. Sharp’s foggy recollections over the exact details of his contact with former Prime Minister...
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After this year's cancellation of the anticipated return of the E3 Expo, Reece Goodall reflects on the state of gaming showcases, and determines whether writing is on the wall for this legendary convention...
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Following the dramatic events of Will Smith’s ‘Slapgate’ at the 94th Academy Awards in 2022, this year’s edition provided a heart-warming, perhaps safe, watch for viewers. The show was definitively dominated by Everything Everywhere All at Once, which won 7 of its 11 nominations. Feel-good moments permeated through the night,...
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By now, we can all agree that, at Monaco, qualifying on Saturday is far more influential than the actual race. Due to the narrow track, overtaking is difficult so starting higher up the grid is a driver’s best chance of a good race result. Unfortunately for Sergio Perez, he crashed...
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With Tears of the Kingdom finally released, Saud Juffa attempts to fragment the Legend of Zelda timeline with all its complications, reincarnations and retcons...
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England coach Sarina Wiegman has announced her 23-player squad for the upcoming Women’s World Cup. The team face a tough task if they are to better England’s best result of third in 2015 or come close to repeating their heroics of last summer’s Euros victory on home turf. Wiegman has...
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Reece Goodall takes us through the small changes and steps we can make as students to reduce our food waste as much as possible.
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During Easter, the Boar sat down with Sarath Varadarajan, a third-year Politics and International Studies student at Warwick, to talk to him about his ongoing year abroad, studying Social Sciences at Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB). Sarath, it’s lovely to speak to you. Before we talk about your time at VUB,...
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The Boar Books presents its very own book list for Mental Health Awareness, inspired by our writers
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