Screamo vocals and faultless vulnerability: Battle of the Bands builds up further anticipation with Heat Three
Amelia Farmer commentates on Heat Three of Battle of the Bands.
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Poetry feature: Not Lost (For Marwan Barghouti)
“When the sun stands at its zenith, he is at one with our shadow; then, in the hour of incandescence, history begins.” – Heiner Müller The old, short man takes a few steps. History is moving. Beaten into a pulp, he gets up again. A man with no legs, keeps...
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Poetry feature: After the Ash Clouds – A Poem for King Lear
For when did a play deliver any justice? He wrote in a drunken daze – a long-faced father writing a gigantic storming tragedy, pulled out from his own smallness. This story moves through the dark times. Some total regime. Lear’s union, strung together by brutish greed. Where’s there’s nothing you...
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Beating the winter blues: A guide to romanticising campus during winter
Most people would agree that the consistent greyness of the sky has been affecting everyone’s mood at the start of the second term. However, just because there is a rare sighting of the sun, that does not mean that your days have to be full of gloom as well. If...
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Premier League titans set to clash in Carabao Cup Final
Last week saw the 2nd leg of the Carabao Cup Semi-finals underway as Arsenal hosted Chelsea in the Emirates. Heading to the fixture with a 3-2 aggregate lead and a 10-game undefeated streak against the Blues, the Premier League leaders looked to be the favourites. The match however seemed cagey...
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The generation game: Does Gen Z have it any easier?
When my grandparents left school, The Beatles’ single ‘She Loves You’ was the most popular song of that year. Meanwhile, the year my parents did the same, Nirvana reached the peak of their fame. Then, in 2023, when I left school, it was Miley Cyrus who had the most popular...
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While charities succeed, they expose state failure
As we enter 2026, an estimated nine million people are at risk of becoming reliant on food banks. Sadly, this is no surprise – the number of food banks in the UK has grown by 8100% since 2010 to nearly 3,000 centres, which are already regularly used by as much...
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Weapons, Warwick, and warfare
Starbucks has bled billions of pounds over the last two years due to its alleged involvement with Israel’s genocide in Gaza. Yet many UK universities, including our own University of Warwick, have received no such backlash for similar behaviour. The concept of universities receiving large amounts of funding from defence...
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Michael On The Move: Exploring Wales
Hi all, welcome back to the latest edition of the column. Last time we explored Bhutan, one of the furthest places we’ve talked about so far, so this time I thought we would turn our attention a little closer to home: Wales! In my first year at Warwick, when I...
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An Offer From a Gentleman… or is it?
Dearest gentle reader, spring has returned and with this new season comes a new season of Bridgerton. The first half of the highly anticipated fourth season of this well-loved show was released on Netflix at the beginning of February, and viewers have already begun raving – or critiquing – the...
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What is the ‘male loneliness epidemic’ and who does it affect?
Gone is the crazy cat lady, and in is the red-pilled, alpha-male manosphere bro. This is, of course, stereotyping. Nevertheless, for centuries, single, ‘lonely’ women have been made to feel lesser-than, from Regency spinsters to the 2021 comment on “childless cat ladies” made by JD Vance, who is now the...
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The rise and fall of Argentina’s economic miracle
Daniel Ghalami-Moncada examines the historical roots of Argentina’s rise to become one of the world's wealthiest economies and fall to become a case study of instability.
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Singing, screaming and soliloquies: spotting Shakespeare in modern culture
If you’ve ever been unlucky enough to get a lift with me, then you’ll know that somewhere between Eminem and Fiddy, a Les Misérables tune will inevitably pop up in my playlist. No – I will not turn it off. And yes – I will be singing along (earplugs not...
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