Pink Floyd’s Wish You Were Here shines on, 50 years later
Ben Tanguy reflects on Pink Floyd's Wish You Were Here.
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How to get into: Prog rock
Joshua Keeble discusses how to get into prog rock.
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Universities must champion diversity or face funding cuts under new plan
Reforms to the Research Excellence Framework (REF) could result in universities facing more consequences for not upholding diversity. The REF is responsible for “assessing the excellence of research” in UK universities and helps inform how the £2 billion budget to fund higher education research is allocated. While equality and diversity...
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The Wellness Edit: the rise of run clubs
As with most trends, the more people who join, the more exposure it gains on social media until a large community has been built. This was the same with running where the growing trend across social media has created an online community for advice, making friends, and feeling involved in...
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Warwick SU Elections 2025 Question Time Day 1: Part-Time Officers
As part of preparation for this week’s Students’ Union (SU) elections, The Boar recently attended a Question Time event for the candidates vying for the Part-Time Officer positions. Candidates for the positions were able to launch their campaigns with a short speech, followed by questions asked by The Boar, RAW...
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The Traitors: Uncloaked – The show that changed the face of podcasting
Get them, before they get you. Our favourite series of backstabbing, betrayal, and murder has triumphantly returned to our screens this January, bringing with it iconic one-liners and characters (we’re looking at you Linda) but also its riotously successful sister-podcast. Hosted by an intoxicatingly enthusiastic Ed Gamble, The Traitors: Uncloaked...
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Warwick Athletics performs 24-hour Piazza run to raise money for charity
The Warwick Athletics & Cross Country Club (WUAXC) has completed a 24-hour run in the piazza, to raise money for the Coventry Food bank as a part of a charity week. The 24-hour run was able to raise £650 for the charity within the first six hours, meeting nearly 90%...
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Stop standardising universities or risk threatening academic autonomy, warns former Warwick head
Nigel Thrift, who served as Vice-Chancellor of Warwick for ten years, has warned that the “standardisation” and “industrialisation” of universities could threaten their “very nature”. Highlighting the warning in his new paper, Thrift, who left his role at Warwick in 2016, blames governments for the bleak outlook, stating they have...
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Blue Skies the limit: Lampard’s Coventry City continue playoff push
Coventry City have enjoyed an excellent start to 2025, with Frank Lampard’s Sky Blues going from strength to strength as they chase down a Championship playoff spot. The England legend’s appointment in November last year, after Coventry parted ways with long-serving manager Mark Robins, attracted plenty of attention – not...
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The era of YouTube commentary and video essays: why we can’t stop watching
In the age of ever-shortening attention spans, it’s almost incomprehensible that long-form YouTube content is thriving. Many of us have had our brains fried to the point where we can no longer watch a video longer than two minutes if it has not been sped up, or if we don’t...
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Sean Baker delivers 2024’s funniest film in the devastating Anora
Anora is a film of contrast. Operating on narrative, visual, and characteristic levels, these contrasts are perhaps best exemplified by Anora’s opening and closing credits; the former features a colourful, almost floral typeface against a vibrant and glamorous environment while complimented by none other than Take That’s 2008 hit ‘Greatest...
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Stories beyond the script: Clashing with class, James Graham’s Brian and Maggie
If there is one drive that is common throughout the work of dramatist James Graham, it is the search for a modern British identity. From assessing Gareth Southgate’s reforming tenure in his play Dear England, to tacking his own divided Nottinghamshire village in his BBC show Sherwood, Graham’s dramas are...
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Coventry residents spared from spending cuts as Government boosts council funding
Coventry City Council has announced it will reverse some unpopular public spending cuts announced in their annual budget after receiving more funding than expected from the Government. The reversed cuts include proposals to reduce the street cleaning budget by 10%, the introduction of car parking charges at War Memorial Park,...
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