I haven’t seen the sun in a month. In fact, it’s raining now. But it is still winter, so what else should we expect? This sort of weather, where it feels like someone has put a grey sheet over the whole sky, is not exactly the most motivating. How many...
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“2026 is the new 2016.” This phrase has been circulating on social media since the beginning of the year as millions of TikTok and Instagram users take a nostalgic look back at 2016. As Zara Larsson’s ‘Lush Life’ returns to the charts, the Snapchat dog filter makes a comeback, and...
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Amelia Farmer interviews James B Partridge about his upcoming tour Primary School Bangers.
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Much is made of Leamington Spa’s North-South divide, since, just like Great Britain itself, Leamington is objectively split into two unanimously accepted halves by an unquestioned, horizontal line. South Leam is characterised by its supposedly superior bus commute, less conventionally ‘idyllic’ housing, and a distinct lack of shops, cafes, or...
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How easy is it to define the eighties? Is it just the policies of Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher? The star persona of someone like Tom Cruise? Or do fictional representations like American Psycho and Stranger Things better embody the decade? Emerging at the height of the zeitgeist, whilst simultaneously...
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Amelia Farmer commentates on Heat Three of Battle of the Bands.
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“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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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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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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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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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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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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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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