We’ve all heard of Charles Darwin, right? The man who invented evolution. Well not really, but he sort of did; it’s either him or God, right? In any case, the trail to his metaphorical immortality wasn’t short of strange and wonderful foibles. To an extent, he was a genius and...
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The opening of Umami in Coventry brings restaurant goers a diverse cultural experience with a broad array of foods, particularly from Chinese, Italian, Indian, and Malaysian cultures.
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Last month, the Boar interviewed Tony Wheeler, the co-founder of Lonely Planet, about his role in setting up Warwick’s new postgraduate course, the Wheeler History of Travel Writing PhD Programme. After the interview, I mentioned to Tony that the Boar Travel section was running a travel photography competition, the ongoing...
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New statistics show a significant drop in youth knife crime rates in Coventry, a meeting of the City Council has heard. It follows the introduction of a new multi-million pound violence reduction project in the city. Data suggests that serious incidents involving blades in the last six months have dropped...
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The Boar's picks for the best albums of the year of 2023.
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Each year, five Nobel prizes are awarded to those who have ‘conferred the greatest benefit to humankind’ in the preceding year. What work did the three science prizes – for Chemistry, Physics and Medicine – celebrate in 1973? Physics: To Leo Esaki and Ivar Giaever “for their experimental discoveries...
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Yaëlle and I have been friends since high school – we have seen each other’s paths to (young) adulthood since leaving the Pays de Gex (France) where we partly grew up. After finishing school, Yaëlle went to Paris and studied Literature and Humanities for two years in prépa in the...
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The University of Northampton (UoN) has seen undergraduates protest over “appalling conditions and extortionate rent” within university-owned flats. The students are particularly outraged with St John’s Halls, in which flats lacked running water and functional hobs. Although residents are paying around £150 for single en-suite rooms, the conditions within...
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The Labour Party could introduce plans to write off the student debts of doctors and nurses if they win power at the next general election, a senior shadow minister has suggested. Wes Streeting, the Shadow Health Secretary, made comments about the plans in a Q&A session at a meeting of...
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Since the implementation of the 1969 Representation of the People Act, 18-year-olds have been eligible to vote in the UK. However, youth turnout at elections has dwindled since the ‘90s. Links have been drawn between the turnout slump and political phenomena such as conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, alongside the...
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Matt Western, Member of Parliament for Warwick and Leamington, spoke to The Boar earlier this month about his recent humanitarian mission to Ukraine. Matt, alongside eight other residents of his constituency, drove two ambulances, two Land Rovers, and a large quantity of medical supplies to Ukraine at the end of...
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Journalists at The Boar have been reporting on abortion since the paper’s launch in 1973 – the same year the Supreme Court deliberated on the landmark Roe v. Wade case. This ruling, decided by a 7-2 margin, protected women’s right to abortion in the United States. Just over a year...
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In the last series of political satire, The Thick of It, showrunner Armando Iannucci makes the big set-piece plot story a public inquiry into the ethics of leaking. A clear mimicry of the contemporaneous Leveson inquiry, it forces all the show’s deplorable characters to air their dirty laundry and wilt...
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