Student activists affiliated with protest group Warwick Stands With Palestine (WSWP) have occupied an entrance to the Materials and Analytical Sciences block in a day-long sit-in. From 8am this morning (Thursday 20 February), demonstrators blocked off the Physics Concourse entrance to the MAS block, hanging up banners reading “Rolls-Royce off...
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More and more universities are seeking to expand their campuses into India amid declining international student recruitment, despite employees and unions’ concerns over redundancies. Universities in the UK attracted over 125,000 students from India in the academic year 2022-2023, but study visa applications are declining, and experts warn that universities...
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Poet and essayist, Louise Glück was born in New York City in 1943 and grew up on Long Island. The arts were a focal point of her childhood and deeply encouraged within the Glück household. Reading at an early age was imperative to her development as an artist. Her parents...
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The Celtic cultures of northwestern Europe, spread across Ireland, Britain, and France, have long histories with rich folklore and mythology that have inspired many tales across the years, recently being used as the foundation for many fantasy novels. Some stories use figures and events in Celtic mythology as basic inspiration...
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Although inspiration lies in the heroism of Sophocles’ Antigone, Shakespeare’s Juliet, or Ibsen’s Nora, often the female villains are the characters that evoke the most intrigue. They are characters that audiences love to hate, often in the form of murderers, troublemakers, or witches. However, with recent adaptations highlighting the moral...
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A LEGO Suffragette named ‘Hope’ has visited the University of Warwick’s Faculty of Arts Building (FAB) to mark the 75th anniversary of Coventry’s first female MP. Hope is a life-size LEGO statue which was crafted for the UK Parliament in 2018 to mark the 100-year anniversary of women receiving voting...
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Fitness challenges have always been popular as they combine goal setting and current fitness trends to engage people in exercise and movement. However, social media takes them to the next level, showcasing challenges that take the body one step further, and advertising ‘life-changing’ results once the challenge is complete. These...
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Part of Donald Trump’s rise to the top of politics can be attributed to his ability to get people talking about him – unfortunately this piece will be doing so too. Trump’s announcement that “the US will take over the Gaza strip” is the newest addition to his series of...
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Four Labour MPs who were suspended for voting against the two-child benefits cap have been readmitted back into the Labour Party after six months. The readmitted MPs include Ian Byrne, Rebecca Long-Bailey, Richard Burgon, and Imran Hussain. Three other Labour MPs who were considered “rebels” by the Labour Party leadership...
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Liz Kendall, Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, made a slew of comments suggesting that the Covid-19 pandemic had negatively impacted young people’s perception of the workplace and encouraged reliance on the welfare system. In an interview with ITV News, she stated: “I think there is genuinely a problem...
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Abhay Venkitaraman discusses Michael Spence's keynote at the Warwick Economics Summit.
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Callum Morar discusses the highest paying streaming services.
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The Kardashians have undone their body enhancement surgeries, Elon Musk is on ozempic, and the ‘ballet body’ is trendy again – what’s going on with body positivity? Was it all a trend? Was it just a commercial opportunity? Maybe body ‘positivity’ was rigged from the start, and we need to...
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