Martin Day

News Editor 2024–25. Head of Photography 2025–25.
Editor-in-Chief, 2025–
Slamming the wasps from the pure apple of truth.

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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Posted Nov. 11, 2024

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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Posted Nov. 11, 2024

Funding ‘catastrophe’ facing British universities — can Warwick ride out the storm?

Academics have warned of a ‘catastrophe’ facing Britain’s universities this year, as rising costs and falling enrolment numbers place huge pressure on institutions’ finances.  It has led to suggestions that universities could be forced to abandon courses, cut staff, or even merge to avoid bankruptcy and closure. Such an event...
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Posted Oct. 4, 2024

BREAKING: University reveals sanctions for students involved in Warwick Tory society ‘Nazi video’

In an exclusive statement issued to The Boar, the University of Warwick has revealed the sanctions imposed on students involved in the Warwick Conservative Association ‘Nazi video’. The video, which shows students dancing and singing along to ‘Erika’ – a marching song associated with Nazi Germany – went viral after...
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Posted Sep. 30, 2024