Just over three years ago, Elon Musk became the biggest shareholder in Twitter, with a 9.2% stake in the company. Musk, a prolific entrepreneur and owner of several companies in the technology sector, bought Twitter in 2022, in a deal for $44 million and rebranded it as ‘X’. He initially...
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President Donald Trump’s second term has affected every inch of the globe, with almost every country hanging on his every word. This is exactly what Trump wants. Among his Republican base in Congress, Trump has been repeatedly heralded as a saviour for the party. He is the only man that...
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James Watson discusses the recent US and Indian trade agreements and their impact on the UK.
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In light of a staunch anti-Trump sentiment within Canada, the nation’s conservative party leader Pierre Poilievre has moved to quickly backtrack and reframe many of his policies. The shift is part of Poilievre’s attempt to close a 25-point lead between himself and the prevailing Liberal party leader Prime Minister Mark...
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The ‘Windrush generation’ is a term that has gone beyond a historical epithet used to describe a population of Caribbean Brits in the United Kingdom. It has become a fully-fledged movement. Around ½ a million Caribbeans came to Britain from their native countries between 1948 and 1971. These people became...
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The essence of a university campus is that it is imbued with its own unique ethos, culture and community. This was something I had not fully appreciated until I had left Warwick. There is always talk that university will be some of the most transformative years of your life. I...
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Operation Varsity Blues was the single largest college admissions scandal to face the United States, with over 40 people indicted in a scheme that involved students gaining entrance to undergraduate programs at elite schools. William Rick Singer, the man who orchestrated the scheme, used the conceptual ‘side door’ to get...
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2025 will mark the arrival of the new ‘Generation Beta’, children set to inherent a rapidly and consistently changing world, full of both technological and environmental uncertainty. Born between 2025 and 2039, this generation is said to be completely centred around a technology-based future and will pioneer new solutions to...
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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 average, the typical shower in the United Kingdom uses 13 litres of water every minute. This means that those people, like myself, who take a 2.5 minute shower, use around 30 litres of water. The same household will get through around 66 plastic-packaged items within a 7-day period and...
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Out of 149 UK universities, 116 have now publicly committed to divest from fossil fuels, marking a record shift in the industry. Across the past 11 years, student activism groups such as People & Planet have been working to cut down universities’ connections to fossil fuels. This is an initiative that...
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The term ‘special relationship’ has been carved out by a long and relatively well-trodden history. The term was originally coined by former Prime Minister Winston Churchill in the wake of the Second World War. In a world where a victorious Britain had defeated Nazi Germany principally due to their alliance...
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45th President of the United States Donald J. Trump will become the 47th. James Watson unpacks the historic result, and speaks to students at the University of Pennsylvania processing the results.
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