Think of a tragic tale of doomed lovers, replete with moonlit encounters and suicidal heartbreak, and it’s likely that Verona’s rival families would come to mind rather than Saint Petersburg aristocrats. Yet The Queen of Spades, Tchaikovsky’s often overlooked masterpiece, has returned to an English stage for the first time...
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Students at the University of Bristol have started a campaign against mouldy student housing, calling for a TripAdvisor-style review website to hold rogue landlords to account. Bristol’s student newspaper Epigram launched the Break the Mould campaign on Monday 3 February. It proposes incorporating a ‘Rent Review’ system into the Student...
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Ben Tanguy reflects on Pink Floyd's Wish You Were Here.
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As part of preparation for this week’s Students’ Union (SU) elections, The Boar recently attended a Question Time event for the candidates vying for the Part-Time Officer positions. Candidates for the positions were able to launch their campaigns with a short speech, followed by questions asked by The Boar, RAW...
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Universities Minister Jacqui Smith has rejected “blank cheque” government funding for higher education, instead warning the cash-strapped sector against “complacency”. Baroness Smith, the Minister of State for Skills, suggested that tuition fees will remain the primary source of higher education funding, in a speech delivered at an event by the...
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Happy 2025! Allow all of us at The Boar to inspire you with our bold new promises for the year – whether that's new sports, no coffee, or (finally) locking in academically.
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On Sunday 8 December, the second round of the Romanian presidential election should have taken place, with a far-right populist poised for victory and the West braced for a loyal NATO ally to realign itself with Russia. Instead, the election was annulled by the Constitutional Court. The unprecedented decision has...
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Warwick has pledged to “lead by example” in the field of research and innovation, as part of an environmental concordat whose signatories include the University of Cambridge and the University of St Andrews. The University announced in a press release that it had “joined over 35 institutions” as a signatory...
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Understandably, you might wonder what relevance a Japanese poet from the 1600s still has today, or why we should read centuries-old haiku when Anglophone writers like Chaucer or Shakespeare are often hard enough to understand. Matsuo Bashō’s Japan was feudal and deeply isolationist, while we live in an age of...
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The public’s trust in mass media is now at a record low, with only 31% of Americans having a “great deal” or “fair amount” of confidence in its accuracy and fairness. Polls in Britain paint a similar picture: just 36% of adults mostly trust the news. But should this really...
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The Portuguese government has announced a decade-long plan to reduce the tax burden for young people, intended to discourage high levels of emigration. People aged 35 and under, including foreigners, who earn below €28,000 would pay no income tax in the first year of the scheme, with rates rising to...
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The number of extremism cases in higher education escalated to senior staff has increased by half in two years, new figures have shown. The Prevent programme, part of the UK Government’s counter-terrorism strategy, recorded a rise to 210 escalated cases of student extremism in 2022-23, up from 139 cases in...
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