The Soundtrack Space: Love Actually
To celebrate the festive season, Emily Gibbs discusses the soundtrack from 'Love Actually'.
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The Boar’s ‘Games of the Year’: 2025 Edition
Another year has passed, and we are back with our topic gaming picks for 2025, be it games that have come out this year, or old classics rediscovered. Join us as we dive into the games that made our 2025. Theo Millard (Writer’s pick) – Hades II Hades is a...
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The best souvenirs you can eat
When I go on holiday, I mostly take back magnets or little mementos of the places I’ve visited, like a piece of the Berlin Wall. My parents, on the other hand, love an edible souvenir. Be it crisps, chocolates, or sweets, I can be sure that they will pick up...
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The RSC Dreams Dahl Once More : A Review of The BFG
Roald Dahl is experiencing a rebirth in British theatre, albeit in widely different ways. I saw Mark Rosenblatt’s biographical drama Giant last summer. That was one of the most powerful plays of the last twenty years, a detailed expose of a complex, utterly fascinating writer. After watching John Lithgow’s Dahl...
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The Badenoch bounce: Why it isn’t enough
It’s been more than a year since Kemi Badenoch took leadership of the Conservative Party, and for most of her time at the helm of the Tories, she has faced persistent difficulties in asserting herself as a credible leader in waiting. With the conservatives having just suffered their biggest election...
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FIFA World Cup 2026 Groups Finalized Following Draw
Earlier last week, the much awaited draw for the FIFA World Cup 2026 took place. The ceremony started with hosts, Kevin Hart and Heidi Klum welcoming everyone before FIFA President, Giovanni Infantino took center stage. Soon after, one of the more impactful events of the evening occurred with US President...
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Sweden’s Christmas traditions: St. Lucia’s Day
I have two words to sum up my experience in Sweden during Christmas time: cold and dark. The days felt incredibly short, and I don’t think I saw the sun for the entire month of December while I was there. Yet I found the Swedes remarkably prepared for this long,...
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Stranger Things 5: The last adventure begins
Following its humble beginnings in 2016, Stranger Things has emerged as one of the most popular television programmes of the 20th century. Despite varying tones and often criticised lengths between seasons, its popularity has endured and now, with the release of its fifth and final season, appears to be at...
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Hurlstone In Progress: To Hinge or not to Hinge?
In the middle of my first year, when I felt like I was haunting campus like some social ghost, I decided to download Hinge. It wasn’t exactly a grand romantic gesture, more of a ‘why not’ moment brought on by boredom and mild loneliness. I told myself it was just...
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Is it scientifically possible for a human to spontaneously combust?
Spontaneous human combustion might seem to be little more than a convenient novel plot device, but the question about whether it can actually happen in real life is disputed. Spontaneous human combustion is the process of a living human suddenly lighting itself on fire without an external source. The most...
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Britain named one of the least ‘nature-connected’ nations in the world
Thoughts of Britain conjure images of the rolling green hills and untouched countryside of classical paintings and novels, yet the country has ranked amongst the worst in the world for nature connectivity, Angelina Zhang reports.
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Priced out and kept out: COP is not inclusive enough for young people
While representatives of the fossil fuel industry were “busy influencing policy decisions,” youth leaders struggled with basic needs such as finding accommodation for COP30, which was hosted in Belém, Brazil this November.When Brazil’s cheapest subsidised rooms exceeded the UN’s subsistence allowance of $149, and the official housing portal opened at double the allowance rate. The youth were effectively getting ‘priced out’ of COP30, now feared to be “the...
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Why I am having toast for lunch and why you should too
Lunch can be a difficult meal of the day. You’re too busy to cook something, you might not have leftovers, you’re starving, hangry, and need something substantial enough to last you until the evening. My answer to this conundrum is this: a loaded slice of toast (or two), so loaded...
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