Revolutionising alternative rock: Radiohead’s ‘The Bends’ thirty years on
Adam Coward reflects on Radiohead's second album 'The Bends' 30 years since release.
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NBA Finals Preview: Thunder and Pacers Set to Battle for the Title
2 teams. 7 games. 1 title. The title of NBA World Champions is up for grabs over the next 2 weeks, and both the Indiana Pacers and Oklahoma City Thunder will be hoping they can clinch it. They have had wildly different paths to the finals, with OKC as the...
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Coventry University’s Assembly Gardens to become hotel and shopping complex in multi-million-pound transformation
The University of Coventry plans to transform the former site of Assembly Festival Gardens into a multi-million-pound complex featuring hotels, shops, and hundreds of new homes. Assembly Festival Gardens, situated on Little Park Street in Coventry, near the city centre, was an outdoor space that served as a venue for...
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Podcast Review – Not Another One
There are a huge number of political podcasts available for fans of the genre. Every former politician, pundit, newspaper, and journalist seems to have joined a podcast, in a phenomenon that reached fever pitch during last year’s election. It was Christmas come early for those of us whose podcast listening...
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Latin or lat-out: Why latin refuses to go quietly
“Habemus Papam” announces the Vatican; people pause, reach for their phones, and pull up Google Translate. The recent announcement that Cardinal Robert Prevost has been elected the first American Pope of the Catholic Church, taking the name Pope Leo XIV, was met with confusion due to its delivery in Latin....
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FIA announce further regulations on flexi-wings after constructor concerns
The FIA, the governing body for motorsport around the world, is further clamping down on the bodywork flexibility of F1 cars, with the regulations announced having the potential to impact the F1 grid and driver rankings. A wing’s flexibility affects the aerodynamics of the car; it can reduce drag on...
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Ange Postecoglou: Stick or Twist?
May 21 2025: a day that will be immortalised forever in Tottenham fans’ memories, the day that would end a 17-year trophy doubt, and the day that would bring European success back to North London after a long hiatus. Silverware in Bilbao will go down as one of the crowning...
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Not just a muse: Elizabeth Siddal’s forgotten work
If you Google ‘Pre-Raphaelite paintings’ right now, then you’ll most likely see mystical and medieval inspired works that include a pale lady with red hair. This woman is Elizabeth Siddal, and if it isn’t her, then it is based on her. By her death in 1862, she became the symbol...
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After Yoon: South Korea’s urgent need for political and economic recovery
The growing turmoil in South Korea’s political climate reached a boiling point when, on December 3 2024, then-president Yoon Suk-yeol declared an emergency military takeover. The reasoning was arguably weak – Yoon feared that there was a growing number of North Korean sympathisers, and the need arose, therefore, to “eliminate...
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UK vs US student experience: which system best serves students’ education?
When deciding whether to attend university, we all advocate for the best ‘experience’. Yet, how does the UK-university experience vary when held up against our American counterparts? Is one system better than the other? When writing a personal statement for a US university application, highlighting your extra-curriculars is “just as...
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Black excellence and its southern charm: Styling in Sinners
If you’ve had the privilege to see the film Sinners, you’ll be aware of the intentionality threaded through every aspect of this film: everything from the lighting to the filmography replicates an immediately immersive American deep south. The thematic importance of Black expression is integral when considering the blues tradition....
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Senior Conservative MP calls for universities to be set up in smaller areas to boost economic growth
The Shadow Leader of the House of Commons, Jesse Norman, has called for universities to be established in smaller cities and towns across the UK in a bid to boost economic growth. Norman, who has served as MP for Hereford and South Herefordshire since 2010, told fellow MPs that he...
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United’s collapse: The struggles behind their worst season in the Premier League era
In a fitting end to a woeful season, Manchester United lost the Europa League final to Tottenham Hotspur. Despite registering 16 shots and dominating for large spells of the game, they were familiarly beaten by their own toothlessness in front of a goal. United have managed just 44 goals in...
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