Cianan Sheekey

Digital politics: Why a footprint doesn’t look like a boot

Today’s digitised world knows, and today’s digital world remembers. As our entire lives are mapped onto the online sphere, so is our politics, increasingly centred on the posts of various ideological and partisan leaders and the bureaucratic institutions they lead. The recent Mandelson saga brought this home for me, as...
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Posted Feb. 26, 2026

Cianan’s Column: GW27: Time to talk chips

Entering the twilight period of the season, with just over ten gameweeks remaining, we need to talk about chip strategy. A lot of managers deployed their triple-captain in GW26 on an Arsenal asset, to, at best, a mediocre result. However, many have all chips remaining, which leaves the question: when...
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Posted Feb. 20, 2026

Cianan’s Column: GW25/26: FPL bedlam

It’s chaos in the FPL world, as managers brace for GW25 and the subsequent double GW26, wherein Arsenal and Wolves play twice. We’ll discuss it all in this article and try to add some order to the frantic disarray. It is essential that you own three Arsenal players for GW26,...
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Posted Feb. 6, 2026

Cianan’s Column: GW24: All aboard the Fernandes train

If I’ve headlined this article after him, and he blanks against Fulham (H), I’ll eat my shoe (note: I won’t). Fernandes, since returning from injury in GW21, has set the world alight, hauling in his past three appearances against tough opposition. He and United teammate Mbuemo are this week’s most...
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Posted Jan. 30, 2026

Cianan’s Column: GW23: Do not scratch your eyes!

Folks, you won’t believe it; I actually got a green arrow last week. Honestly, I wasn’t sure it was possible anymore. I’ve been so long without one. Thiaw, Gabriel, Enzo, and Raya ought to receive a Cianan’s Column guard of honour (am I allowed to bestow those?). However, as with...
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Posted Jan. 23, 2026

Comment Corner: Reform Cllr George Finch on campus

Today, The University of Warwick’s own PPE Society will be hosting the next event in their Speaker Series: a Q&A with Reform UK’s Councillor George Finch, the leader of Warwickshire County Council. The comments of the Instagram post announcing the event aptly demonstrate the controversy this has generated among the...
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Posted Jan. 21, 2026

Cianan’s Column: GW21: The Ekitiké enigma

Ekitiké is owned, at the time of writing, by 32% of managers, and it’s challenging to know what to do with the Liverpool forward. Looking down the barrel of GW18, 19, and 20, he looked extremely promising, but his best score during those weeks was a 5-pointer against bottom-of-the-table Wolves,...
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Posted Jan. 6, 2026

2026 Boar Resolutions

Happy 2026! Allow your favourite student journalists to inspire you with our annual attempts at renewal – whether that's proper hydration, banishing doomscrolling, or perfecting the art of the Letterboxd review.
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Posted Jan. 1, 2026

The Rest is Politics: An anchor in the storm

The Rest is Politics (TRIP) resides at the eye of the storm, dispensing clarity, logic, and much-needed civility, all while surrounded by turbulence and thunder. Critics label it as an “echo-chamber”, but it can instead be seen as a soft, if insular, battleground for pragmatic politics. If there’s anything a...
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Posted Dec. 29, 2025