There is only one way to start this week’s rendition of The Boar’s FPL column, and that’s with Man City’s Norwegian powerhouse Haaland. He may cost an eye-watering £14.1m, but at the moment he’s the talk of the town following his 13-point haul against Man United last weekend. Not only...
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Reform UK’s 2025 national conference last week saw leader Farage declare higher education is “poisoning” young minds while Warwickshire council leader Finch spoke confidently about the party’s status in the region. The conference was held at the National Exhibition Centre in Birmingham on September 5 and 6 and was attended...
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Cianan Sheekey discusses the failures of the USSR's command economy, and how they led to its inevitable collapse
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Do not fret, folks: the international break is over, and we are free. Watching international football is riveting during tournaments, but when qualifiers interrupt a weekend of Premier League football? Frustrating, though unavoidable. With this glorious return comes the return of FPL, so it’s time to delve back into some...
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Warwick has ranked joint sixth place alongside the University of Strathclyde in the Daily Mail’s 2026 university rankings. Warwick has placed above the universities of St Andrews, Bristol, Bath, Durham, and King’s College to retain its position from last year. The rankings, led by Imperial College London, Cambridge, and Oxford, described...
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Well, that certainly was a thrilling weekend of football, with some scintillating matches, including Tottenham’s shock result against Manchester City away from home, Everton’s first win at their new stadium as they saw off Brighton, and Liverpool’s last-gasp winner at St. James’ Park to beat Newcastle. However, in terms of...
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University leaders have been encouraged to engage more seriously with Nigel Farage’s Reform UK amid the party’s continued rise in support. As of 4 August, YouGov polling suggests that 28% of people intend to vote for Reform in the next UK general election – seven percentage points more than Labour,...
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Don’t worry – you’re not alone. Thousands, if not millions, of Fantasy Premier League (FPL) players are feeling jittery following the conclusion of the first gameweek, the point in the Fantasy season where it’s easiest to feel like you’ve made mistakes, whether you suffered a harrowing one-pointer with Frimpong, missed...
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As many as 20,000 higher education jobs could be at risk, as a new survey has revealed the true extent of redundancies facing the sector. Rebecca Harrison, a former lecturer at the Open University, and David Harvie, who previously served as the University and College Union’s (UCU) treasurer, surveyed 349...
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Water is wet, grass is green, the Pope is Catholic, and Toby Fox makes great games. Whether it’s Undertale or any of Deltarune’s first four chapters, I have Fox down as 5-0 – and a gleaming 5-0 at that. Coming straight from your house, the long-awaited third and fourth chapters...
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Cianan Sheekey discusses the pivotal impact Franklin D. Roosevelt had on American government, fiscal policy and politics.
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The Education Committee has opened an inquiry into the precarious fiscal situation of the UK’s higher education institutions. Following the release of a troubling report by the Office for Students, outlining the ill health of the sector’s finances and a growing inability to depend on income from international students (as...
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Caroline Lucas, Ed Miliband, and Theresa May – and to a lesser extent, Margaret Thatcher, Boris Johnson, and David Cameron – are all (somewhat) defensible answers to the question, which British politician has contributed most to the environmentalist movement? Many of these options highlight the typical tension between rhetoric and action,...
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