A Coventry city councillor and former Warwick Labour chair has resigned from the Labour Party and backed local MP Zarah Sultana’s breakaway movement. Cllr Grace Lewis, 21, was elected last year to Coventry’s Westwood ward in the May local elections. Then a Warwick student, she defeated incumbent Conservative councillor Asha...
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A radical in her time and ours, Sarah Kane is one of the greatest English Playwrights of the last fifty years, who is nearly never performed on the commercial stages. It is as if her plays have been given, like the biblical story that she was brought up with, a...
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It is important to note there is no universal ‘cure’ for cancer; each type (from bowel cancer to brain cancer) has numerous physiological and structural differences – including a unique pattern of biomarkers – meaning advancing cancer research is a multi-faceted and intricate field. However, from diagnostic improvements (advanced robotics...
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Katie Hopkins’ stand-up show at Rugby’s Benn Hall in Warwickshire has been cancelled by Rugby Borough Council, following police advice about a planned protest by Stand Up to Racism outside the venue. The show, part of her Batsh*t Bonkers Britain tour, had been scheduled for 19 July. This isn’t free...
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“Our present-day civilisation is so complex a thing, that it seems to have no room for the baby.” One would be forgiven for thinking these were the words of a right-wing pundit in the 2020s. Alas, they were written 115 years ago by John Ballantyne, an influential Scottish doctor. He...
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UK university students risk going to jail if they express support for the proscribed group Palestine Action, the former government advisor on political violence and disruption has warned. Lord Walney, a former British government independent adviser, said that vice-chancellors should alert students to the the penalties that could be incurred...
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Famed literary critic and professor Edward Said once wrote that “no one today is purely one thing.” Said suggested that our collective identities are not fixed markers, but instead “no more than starting points”. He noted that the old European empires, while consolidating a mixture of cultures and identities, forced...
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I think that insects are cool. Every insect is uniquely adapted to the niche of its environment, yet they are also durable and adaptable. Despite all that, they aren’t on the same level of existence that humans or other intelligent creatures are. Or are they? For so long, we have...
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UK universities are addressing how they handle drug-related incidents, moving away from traditional zero-tolerance drug policies and towards harm reduction methods. This change is driven by advice made in a 2024 report by the UK Universities Drug Taskforce. Harm reduction encompasses a set of measures that minimise the dangers of drug...
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It is a universal experience for charity shoppers: you’re in the second shop of the day and, despite some patterns catching your eye, none of the clothes are quite right. They’re just too big, too small, too 2010s. In retaliation to those ever-present videos of influencers parading fast fashion hauls...
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An agonising stoppage time defeat in the play-off semi-final curtailed an eventful 2024/25 season for Coventry City as they narrowly missed out on promotion to the Premier League. Their meteoric rise through the table at the end of the year, helped by the managerial appointment of Frank Lampard, will provide...
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Doctor Who is in an odd position. Nearly four years ago now it was announced that British TV super-producer Russell T Davies, then still in the midst of his victory lap following the success of his acclaimed series It’s a Sin, which focused on the 1980s AIDS epidemic, would be...
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There’s something oddly exhausting about trying to be efficient. Whether it’s brushing your teeth in the shower, boiling water at 6am for a flask, or laying out a breakfast spoon the night before – it seems that the cult of the microefficiency rules modern life. Tiny time-savers designed to claw...
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