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Cianan’s Column: GW6: Time to wildcard?

That’s the big question. Since FPL players have access to two wildcard chips this year, one before GW19 and one after, as well as five free transfers ahead of GW16, managers are deliberating whether now is the time to draw upon the chip that grants unlimited transfers. The opportunity for...
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By , Sep. 26, 2025

Flash fiction feature: Linger On

The first time I saw her, she was coming in from Crocus Square. Someone like my mother would never notice someone like her, but someone like me instantly did. Her hair was ever so slightly greasy, a bit too long for her liking. It was clear. The way she flicked...
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By , Sep. 26, 2025

UK’s first ‘super-university’ announced, as Kent and Greenwich merge amid financial struggles

The universities of Kent and Greenwich will merge into the UK’s first ‘super-university’ from autumn 2026, uniting under the proposed name of London and South East University Group. The move comes amid sector-wide financial pressures, and signifies the drastic measures that UK universities will have to consider in the near...
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By , Sep. 25, 2025

The Women’s Prize Winners Announced

On Thursday 12 June 2025, the winners of the Women’s Prize for Fiction and Non-Fiction were announced. It marked the 13th awarding of the Women’s Prize for Fiction, and the second of the Prize for Non-Fiction, in a ceremony hosted by the founding director Kate Mosse. Kate Mosse led a...
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By , Sep. 25, 2025

Trump in no man’s land

In the final scene of Harold Pinter’s play No Man’s Land, the nostalgic old poet Spooner states to his elderly counterpart Hirst: “No. You are in no man’s land. Which never moves, which never changes, which never grows older, but which remains forever, icy and silent.” I kept thinking of...
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By , Sep. 23, 2025

Warwick researchers backed by €1.5 million of European funding for new science projects

The University of Warwick’s Dr Hannes Houck and Dr João Monteiro are among the 478 researchers across Europe who have been recognised as part of the European Research Council’s (ERC) Starting Grants Initiative. The €761 million scheme aims to support early-career scientists in their endeavours to pursue original ideas and...
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By , Sep. 23, 2025

Are holidays overrated? My travel hot-take

Zoe Rae’s recent visit to Bali made me think about the expectations we have for our holidays versus the reality we are met with. Zoe Rae (a social media influencer) visited Indonesia in July 2025 and complained of it not meeting her and her husband’s expectations: “We came to Bali...
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By , Sep. 22, 2025

Canelo Vs Crawford; the fight of the decade

Much is made of the Saudi Arabian entrance to the world boxing. The critiques are loud and numerous. Boxing never known to weigh human rights heavily has enthusiastically embraced Turki Al-Sheikh. Like its entrance into golf, football and tennis, many accuse the kingdom of using boxing as a means to...
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By , Sep. 21, 2025

The crisis over Kashmir – A reflection

On May 6 2025, India embarked on ‘Operation Sindoor’, targeting nine different areas of Pakistan and Pakistan-administered Kashmir, in retaliation for the alleged Pakistani militant attack on Pahalgam, India-administered Kashmir, which killed 26 people. The overnight operation resulted in shockwaves being sent through Pakistan and Pakistan-administered Kashmir, with the explosions...
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By , Sep. 21, 2025