One late summer night, as the streets of Lisbon grew thick with a drum of voices bouncing against enamel walls, my girlfriend and I spent just over two hours in a very hot Airbnb watching Julian Schnabel’s Before Night Falls. Based on Cuban writer and literary revolutionary Reinaldo Arenas’ memoir,...
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It’s November 17, World Prematurity Day! 22 years ago, my mum was 28 weeks and 5 days pregnant with twins when she suddenly started having contractions. Rushed to the hospital, doctors gave her steroid injections to help their tiny lungs develop. After a night spent in the hospital, my mum...
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Hey all, I hope you enjoyed the first edition of Michael on the Move. As promised, this week I will be choosing a random holiday destination. I gave ChatGPT this prompt: “Give me a random country to go on holiday to.” It chose Slovenia. So, this week’s column will be...
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Warwick Photography Society (better known as PhotoSoc), fosters a budding community of photographers. They provide many photographic opportunities and curate a diverse range of socials and workshops aimed at anyone interested in the practice of photography, regardless of prior experience. Eliza Ochea (President of PhotoSoc), Shahnaz Rahman (Vice-President of PhotoSoc),...
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The availability of artificially generated ‘art’ continues to grow. The tech industry insists that AI is here to stay. Should creators and audiences of art now surrender to the existence of the ‘AI artist’? While experimentation with generative technology has been ongoing since the 1950s, the ‘AI Art’ we know...
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Veera Gupta discusses how the global financial crisis still shapes today's culture, economics and politics.
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Abbie Fox discusses rising vape and nicotine pouch use and the urgent need for stronger regulation
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Afif Hasan discusses recent UK food policy changes and how significant they will likely be
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Sofia Laurie reviews Ang Lee's 2000 martial arts classic
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The 2025-2026 academic year has seen tuition fees for domestic undergraduate students rise by £285, now totalling £9,535, a 3.1% increase from last year’s £9,250. Chief executive of UK Universities Vivienne Stern argues in a recent statement that fee rises will “help to halt the long-term erosion of universities’ financial...
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The government has announced that it will set limits on new student recruitment for universities that perform poorly on the Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF), as it grants the Office for Students (OfS), the regulator of higher education in the UK, greater power. Currently, the OfS can fine universities that don’t...
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When you think of university sport, it’s likely that one of the first things that comes to mind is BUCS (British Universities and Colleges Sport). This is, perhaps, unsurprising: BUCS leagues dominate the university sport landscape, with athletes and teams travelling across the country every Wednesday to take part in...
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