How to set your Christmas pudding on fire
Merry Christmas! Wow/terrify your relatives this holiday season by following our guide to the perfectly flamed plum pudding, as researched by Martin Day.
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Students fatalistic as tuition fees in England to rise for first time in eight years
University tuition fees in England are set to rise for the first time since 2017, prompting an attitude of resignation among students. The planned 3.1% increase may seem modest, but marks only the second rise since tuition fees were controversially tripled in 2010 under David Cameron’s coalition government. This hike,...
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Elsewhere at Warwick — Volume 47 Issue III
Articles in this section originally appeared in Volume 47, Issue III of The Boar, published Tuesday 3 December, 2024. Joy at Kebab Van’s return A nondescript, white box hovering at the furthest edges of the piazza at night marked the triumphant return to campus of Adam’s Kebab Van, known affectionately...
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The call of the north: Exhilarating adventures in the freezing cold
Britain in winter is an exceptionally dull place. Too mild for snow, too wet for frost. Just mud and rain and grey: empty vistas for as far as your bleary, apathetic gaze could care to look. Is there any wonder that the overwhelming urge is to shun travel entirely? To...
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BREAKING: Warwick SU speaks out over Disband the Tories campaign
Warwick Students’ Union (SU) has addressed recent controversy regarding the All Student Vote (ASV) and sanctions faced by the University of Warwick Conservative Association (UWCA). In a statement titled ‘A message to our members’, the SU acknowledged concerns from students over the organisation’s transparency, and decisions taken in the Impact...
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How could this happen? Three books to make sense of the US election
It’s been only a few weeks since the results of the US presidential election shattered political consensus, like a rock tossed through the surface of a frozen pond. That former President Donald Trump, a disgraced convicted felon subject to dozens of sexual assault allegations, could defeat Kamala Harris, a successful...
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Pink-haired Warwick student’s 24-hour walk raises £1.1k for charity
Warwick student Ed Swann has raised over £1,100 for men’s health charities after walking between campus and Leamington Spa for 24 hours. The second-year PAIS student embarked on the feat of foot-based fundraising in support of men’s mental health charity Movember and the Oddballs Foundation, a testicular cancer charity. Mr...
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World’s largest pumpkin as heavy as 14 wild boars
One Vauxhall Corsa. 14 wild boars. 307 first-year physics textbooks, and 1,535 copies of The Boar. That isn’t the Editor-in-Chief’s slightly perplexing shopping list but is instead a list of items equal in weight to the world’s largest pumpkin. The titanic vegetable was crowned on 14 October at the annual...
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Will microwaving food in plastic give you cancer?
The science will have you binning your tupperware — but is there any point to panicking? Martin Day explores the true scale of our plastic problem in food, looking at what scientists know, the huge amount they don't, and whether it might be pointless after all to try avoiding plastic's effects.
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Autumn All Student Vote ‘cancelled’ after all proposals rejected by SU
Student groups have reacted with anger after Warwick Students’ Union appeared to cancel this term’s All Student Vote (ASV), in an unprecedented move. In its Impact Assessment report, available online, the SU rejected all eight motions proposed by students to be voted on in Week 9. The decision has effectively...
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Elsewhere at Warwick — Volume 47 Issue II
Articles in this section originally appeared in Volume 47, Issue II of The Boar, published Tuesday 29 October, 2024. Houseplant sales wither Among other staples of the start of term, students this month were tempted with an exotic array of miniature greenery at the annual houseplant pop-up sale. Browsing the...
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The end of the coal power party: after 142 years, the UK has finally moved on from coal. And not a moment too soon.
In what represents a genuinely seismic step, the UK has become the first major global economy to move on entirely from coal power with the closure of Ratcliffe-on-Soar, the last coal power plant left in Britain.
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