The University of Warwick spent £25,000 on rewards as part of its Moves+ scheme, which was pulled in June due to rising operational costs. A Freedom of Information (FOI) request, submitted via WhatDoTheyKnow, confirmed the five-figure budget for rewards claimed through the programme, which ran for just under two years....
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I bet if I asked what your zodiac sign is, you would be able to answer me on the spot. Even if you don’t take zodiac signs seriously, you might still see them as a fun novelty to explain certain traits. Maybe the belief that the stars were aligned in...
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Entering Leamington Spa Art Gallery’s new exhibition, A Different View: Women Artists in the Collection, you’ll be met by the varied works of over 50 British women artists. Curated together with a desire to restructure women’s historical absence from the art world, the exhibition bridges together artists from the late...
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Plans for a 65ft phone mast disguised as a tree have been refused by Coventry City Council, which cited concerns it would result in a “highly conspicuous, visually discordant development”. The plans for the mast in the city’s Wyken area, originally submitted in 2024, had previously been refused when planners...
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A handful of Warwick students, including me, had the opportunity to take one of our second-year modules in the beautiful city of Venice this summer. Admittedly, I did not know many details of the course before it began. Indeed, I only discovered the actual location of the campus after my...
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A Coventry city councillor and former Warwick Labour chair has resigned from the Labour Party and backed local MP Zarah Sultana’s breakaway movement. Cllr Grace Lewis, 21, was elected last year to Coventry’s Westwood ward in the May local elections. Then a Warwick student, she defeated incumbent Conservative councillor Asha...
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A radical in her time and ours, Sarah Kane is one of the greatest English Playwrights of the last fifty years, who is nearly never performed on the commercial stages. It is as if her plays have been given, like the biblical story that she was brought up with, a...
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It is important to note there is no universal ‘cure’ for cancer; each type (from bowel cancer to brain cancer) has numerous physiological and structural differences – including a unique pattern of biomarkers – meaning advancing cancer research is a multi-faceted and intricate field. However, from diagnostic improvements (advanced robotics...
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Katie Hopkins’ stand-up show at Rugby’s Benn Hall in Warwickshire has been cancelled by Rugby Borough Council, following police advice about a planned protest by Stand Up to Racism outside the venue. The show, part of her Batsh*t Bonkers Britain tour, had been scheduled for 19 July. This isn’t free...
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“Our present-day civilisation is so complex a thing, that it seems to have no room for the baby.” One would be forgiven for thinking these were the words of a right-wing pundit in the 2020s. Alas, they were written 115 years ago by John Ballantyne, an influential Scottish doctor. He...
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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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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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I think that insects are cool. Every insect is uniquely adapted to the niche of its environment, yet they are also durable and adaptable. Despite all that, they aren’t on the same level of existence that humans or other intelligent creatures are. Or are they? For so long, we have...
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