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Students supporting Palestine Action risk prison, universities warned

UK university students risk going to jail if they express support for the proscribed group Palestine Action, the former government advisor on political violence and disruption has warned. Lord Walney, a former British government independent adviser, said that vice-chancellors should alert students to the the penalties that could be incurred...
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By , Jul. 30, 2025

What Reform reveals

Famed literary critic and professor Edward Said once wrote that “no one today is purely one thing.” Said suggested that our collective identities are not fixed markers, but instead “no more than starting points”. He noted that the old European empires, while consolidating a mixture of cultures and identities, forced...
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By , Jul. 30, 2025

UK universities move away from zero-tolerance drug policies

UK universities are addressing how they handle drug-related incidents, moving away from traditional zero-tolerance drug policies and towards harm reduction methods. This change is driven by advice made in a 2024 report by the UK Universities Drug Taskforce. Harm reduction encompasses a set of measures that minimise the dangers of drug...
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By , Jul. 29, 2025

Sewing your way to sustainable fashion

It is a universal experience for charity shoppers: you’re in the second shop of the day and, despite some patterns catching your eye, none of the clothes are quite right. They’re just too big, too small, too 2010s. In retaliation to those ever-present videos of influencers parading fast fashion hauls...
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By , Jul. 29, 2025

Is Doctor Who stuck in the past?

Doctor Who is in an odd position. Nearly four years ago now it was announced that British TV super-producer Russell T Davies, then still in the midst of his victory lap following the success of his acclaimed series It’s a Sin, which focused on the 1980s AIDS epidemic, would be...
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By , Jul. 26, 2025

The pursuit of perfection: From screamers to stats

I remember seeing a trend recently on social media reminiscing over the ‘Prime Barclays Era’. Clips of Ronaldo stepovers, of Cissé’s banana goal past a sprawling Čech, and of Henry’s rampaging runs – physical yet with a decided elegance – were popping up on my feed. The clips transport the...
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By , Jul. 26, 2025

University’s Claycroft accommodation to undergo 10-month refurbishment

Work has commenced to renovate the University of Warwick’s Claycroft Residences, in a project expected to last the entirety of the 2025/26 academic year. Morgan Sindall Construction has been handed the contract for the major 17,000m2 overhaul, which will see the accommodation’s three blocks, built between 1994 and 1997, refurbished...
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By , Jul. 25, 2025