The shrinking and growing of song lengths
Amelia Farmer discusses the ever-changing nature of song lengths.
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The Resonant Voice of Zimbabwe’s NoViolet Bulawayo
When it comes to capturing the dislocation, grief, and surreal humour of postcolonial life, few voices ring louder or clearer than that of NoViolet Bulawayo. Born Elizabeth Zandile Tshele in Zimbabwe, Bulawayo writes under a name stitched from memory and mourning: ‘NoViolet’ meaning ‘with Violet’ – a tribute to her...
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The wildest ways to travel on-screen
Having just come back from a holiday with friends in Bratislava which required a plane journey and coming off of a cruise with my family over the summer, I have experienced many ways of traveling to holiday destinations. But are these the most efficient and enjoyable? I have often thought...
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Possessors, Self-Dispossessed: ROMANS: A NOVEL at the Almeida Theatre
By the end of Alice Birch’s new epic-masculinity saga, I’m left half-astonished. Romans: A Novel is a play of great ambition – something that new plays should always be striving towards. Problems arise when a play’s fascinating form does not move in time with its content. Spanning over a century of...
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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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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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Why I play games: One gamer’s exploration into their hobby
From flash games on a series of browsers (including the now-defunct Internet Explorer) to Purple Place on my grandfather’s Window XP, computer games always brought me great joy. The first memory I have of being deeply immersed in a game is with Fireboy and Watergirl: a flash game which would...
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Tenacious Coventry City steal late point to extend unbeaten league start
On Saturday, local side Coventry City battled to a more-than-deserved 1-1 draw at home to Norwich City to extend their unbeaten start to the new Sky Bet Championship campaign. After Danish forward Mathias Kvistgaarden had put the visitors in front early on, the Sky Blues dominated the vast majority of...
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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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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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A comedy of errors: The fallout from Angela Rayner’s resignation
To resign or not to resign, that is the question. A week is a long time in politics, as Harold Wilson’s oft-repeated adage goes, and so it proved for our embattled government, with the resignation of Angela Rayner. The departure of the then Deputy Prime Minister came after an ethics...
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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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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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