Whether you’re drained after a long day of lectures or simply want to switch your brain off, guilty pleasure shows have you covered. Here are some of my favourite guilty pleasures that help me to decompress at uni! Game Shows Nothing says guilty pleasure like game shows. On my list...
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This Sunday saw a dramatic end to the Formula One season, with McLaren’s Lando Norris crowned Driver’s Champion for the first time after beating Max Verstappen and Oscar Piastri to clinch the title by just two points. The Abu Dhabi Grand Prix marked the first time since 2010 that more...
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The much-anticipated socialist Your Party conference got underway on 29 November in Liverpool, with all the promise of a new left-wing force ready to challenge Labour from the grassroots. Instead, the whole thing descended into a debacle so self-inflicted it might have been mistaken for a parody. A movement once...
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Chinaza Eke explores the benefits of providing free gym memberships in Malta, how this policy influences the wider economy, and what the UK might consider adopting to improve the wellbeing and livelihoods of its own people.
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“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness……“ This quote by Mark Twain suggests that travelling is a necessity to mould oneself into an ideal human. But how viable is this claim? The rise of social media has brought with it, a disguisedly joyous exposure to the experiences of humankind....
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As a grown-up now, I fondly look back on the time when my primary school friends were obsessed with playing Identity V (in Hong Kong), me attempting to play it, and being told off by my parents because it was “too violent”. That did not dim my interest in video...
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More than 600 Warwick freshers have been left “frustrated” and “frightened” after being placed in off-campus accommodation – only to later learn that returners and postgraduates occupy nearly 20% of on-campus rooms. Rather than being given a bed on campus, these incoming first years were told that the University’s rooms...
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Following a meeting with Stagecoach on 6 November, Warwick Students’ Union (SU) has admitted that “little progress” has been made on student concerns about transport services to and from the University. The SU President, Alijah Taha, and Vice-President for Democracy and Development, James Varney, raised a number of student concerns...
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The University’s ‘One World Warwick’ programme returned last month for its sophomore outing, after launching in November 2024 as a showcase of Warwick’s commitment to a global future. Prof Michael Scott, the University’s Pro-Vice-Chancellor (International) opened the celebration’s flagship event, the Global Illuminations Procession, on 19 November together with the...
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Deadline season briefly became festive season on Wednesday 26 November as Christmas officially kicked off on campus with the annual light switch-on, fit with society performances and even an appearance from Santa himself. The festivities began with the ever-popular Christmas market, with stalls this year offering everything from bracelets to dog treats, and...
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On 6 November, the University of Nottingham announced that they would be suspending 46 courses for the 2026/2027 academic year, including all modern languages and music courses. A spokesperson from the University of Nottingham stated: “Ahead of these proposals being put forward to the university’s council later this month, we...
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The higher education watchdog for England, the Office for Students (OfS), has warned that degree-awarding procedures at universities are overly generous and risk undermining academic integrity. The regulator’s recent report highlighted that “inherently inflationary” practices being used at English universities, such as over-reliance on algorithmic marking and dismissal of a student’s lowest mark, misrepresent the achievements of students and...
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The government has launched an investigation into the rising percentage of young people not in education, employment, or training (NEETs), which it has deemed a ‘crisis’. 948,000 young people between the ages of 16 and 24 were classified as NEETs in June 2025, a number which is set to continue...
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