The Boar and members of its team have been recognised by the Student Publication Association (SPA) at their annual National Conference. Held on the 27 and 28 March in association with Concrete, the University of East Anglia’s student newspaper, SPANC 26 was filled with networking events and workshops tailored to...
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After the number of complaints from students about the bi-termly Skool Dayz event has reached a record high, the Students’ Union has decided to run its final Skool Dayz in Week 7 of Term 3. In a version of the SU website, the Skool Dayz description explicitly asks students to...
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The Dirty Duck was transformed into a sea of green on Friday, 13 March 2026 as a week of campaigning and voting came to an end in the Warwick Students’ Union (SU) 2026 Spring Officer Elections.
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Leamington Spa has bid to become the UK’s first Town of Culture, a branch of the City of Culture initiative, with mixed response from University of Warwick students. The UK City of Culture initiative was launched in 2009 and has featured four winners, including Coventry in 2021. This year, the Department for...
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In the run-up to the Warwick Students’ Union (SU) Spring Elections, The Boar offered all Full-Time Officer (FTO) candidates the opportunity to be interviewed. Hugh Gunton, one of the candidates for VP Sports, sat down with The Boar‘s incoming Co-News Editor, Maya Gordon, to discuss his campaign. He emphasised that Warwick Sport...
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Gone is the crazy cat lady, and in is the red-pilled, alpha-male manosphere bro. This is, of course, stereotyping. Nevertheless, for centuries, single, ‘lonely’ women have been made to feel lesser-than, from Regency spinsters to the 2021 comment on “childless cat ladies” made by JD Vance, who is now the...
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It’s hard enough to navigate a relationship as a young adult without being bombarded by happy couples, relationship therapists, unhappy people in relationships, unhappy singles, dating coaches, and happy singles online. I don’t especially enjoy a scroll through Instagram around Valentine’s Day because of the overload of couples content: dating experts, picture-perfect happy couples, and general...
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Emergency contraception, or the ‘morning-after’ pill, has been made available for free on the NHS in nearly 10,000 high street pharmacies, including Boots. The morning-after pill, sometimes also called Plan B or emergency oral contraception, is a pill normally taken after unprotected sex and works to prevent pregnancy by delaying...
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According to the Hemline Index, trendy skirt length differs depending on the strength of the economy – the shorter the skirt, the stronger the economy. Given the decade’s demonstrations of slow growth, what kind of skirts might we be seeing? Or is the Hemline Index far too rigid a theory...
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Warwick art historian, Dr Elizabeth Goldring, has discovered a thought-to-be lost portrait of Henry Wriothesley after more than 400 years since its creation. Henry Wriothesley (1573-1624) was the third Earl of Southampton, and was notably connected to William Shakespeare, with two of the playwright’s famous poems dedicated to him. The...
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The University of Warwick’s very own Helen Trappelides, a 20-year-old English Literature student, has won the MCC Young Female Broadcaster of the Year award. The award, which was launched last year, aims to increase opportunities for young women looking to join the sports broadcasting and the sports journalism world in...
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Instagram poetry can also be known by its shortened form, ‘Instapoetry’, which is possibly a more accurate name for the phenomenon. Its poems are typically characterised by a lack of punctuation, short lines and stanzas, and simple language. Appealing due to its bite-sized format, Instapoetry is perhaps the most common...
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A survey has found that half of 16-21 year olds would support a “digital curfew” which would enforce a mandatory cut-off time for certain apps, citing the negative effects of social media. Almost half of British teenagers admitted feeling addicted to their phones. 57% of girls agreed with the statement...
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