Coventry City Council faces a government fine after it was found that its employees were not being paid the National Minimum Wage. The council was listed alongside almost 500 other employers as part of the government’s new ‘Plan to Make Work Pay’ initiative, which aims to raise working standards across...
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Last week, we talked at length about whether to sell or stick with Chelsea’s Pedro and Arsenal’s Gyökeres. It’s clear that, for GW10 at least, sticking was the right choice, with both players hauling (though the latter still needs to be transferred out, as injury sees him face time on...
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No one is ever truly ready to study abroad; you just have to be brave enough to try. The night before I moved 3,436 kilometres away from home, I sat on my bedroom floor surrounded by four packed bags that somehow carried eighteen years of my life. My mind was...
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The Godfather. Annie Hall. Twin Peaks. Finding Dory. These landmarks mark a truly unique life and career and today, we’ll take a look back upon just that in order to discern what made the late Diane Keaton so special. Born Diane Hall in 1946, Keaton was the eldest of four...
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Higher education in this country is, at its most basic level, an attempt to soothe one of society’s greatest injustices: that people from different backgrounds have unequal rights to education. Our tertiary education system is unsustainable in its current form, but it is at least trying. It’s a broken system,...
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Nowadays, you can find a podcast for every taste, interest, and topic of discussion. From literary criticism, to true crime, to A-Level revision, as of September 2025 there are over 4.52 million podcasts available worldwide, with hundreds of thousands of new shows launched in the past three months. If a...
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Emergency contraception, or the ‘morning-after’ pill, has been made available for free on the NHS in nearly 10,000 high street pharmacies, including Boots. The morning-after pill, sometimes also called Plan B or emergency oral contraception, is a pill normally taken after unprotected sex and works to prevent pregnancy by delaying...
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Max Wild explores why UK productivity has been so low, specifically relating it back to the global finance crisis, Brexit, and the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Emily Gibbs as part of her new column 'The Soundtrack Space' discusses the soundtrack from 'Oppenheimer'.
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Professor Tim Blackman’s new report for the Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI) suggests that full-time honours degrees are an outdated form of study that do not provide people with lifelong skills and knowledge. The report, titled ‘A Call for Radical Reform: Higher Education for a Sustainable Economy’, contributes to the...
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In this article, I’ve picked a few different creative writing competitions that are open or opening soon. Whether you’re interested in poetry, short stories, long fiction or non-fiction, there are many different competitions available – this is not a conclusive list so go ahead and look for a prize that...
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Following last Wednesday’s 0-3 loss at home at the Carabao Cup, Liverpool have now lost 6 out of their previous 7 games. This embarrassing result comes only five days after a 3-2 loss at Brentford, where Arne Slot’s men were thoroughly outclassed. Brentford went 2-0 up at 45 minutes, before...
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Tom Manders-Trett discusses how to get into alternative rock band Wednesday.
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