Varsity 2025: Warwick secures victory in nervy men’s football opener
As Varsity 2025 gets underway, Nikolai Morton reports on the Mens' Football
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Warwick SU Elections 2025 Question Time Day 2: Full-Time Officers
As part of preparation for this week’s Students’ Union (SU) elections, The Boar recently attended a Question Time event for the candidates vying for the Full-Time Officer positions. Candidates for the positions were able to launch their campaigns with a short speech, followed by questions asked by The Boar, RAW 1251AM, and...
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Ale as old as time: Warwick’s Real Ale Festival returns for its 45th year
Abigail Warwick Real Ale Society’s annual Real Ale Festival arrived in the Copper Rooms for its 45th year. Declared as the biggest student-run beer festival in Europe, the wide variety of beers, ciders, wines, and mead are enough to entice Warwick’s student population and locals alike. A trip to the...
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The politics within the frame: How do presidential portraits sculpt a persona?
The US presidency has undergone many dramatic overhauls as the country approaches its 250th birthday. Yet, from the first founding fathers, to Trump’s historic non-consecutive terms, one thing has been constant: the presidential portrait. From the manner in which a new president presents himself in the official portrait (I use...
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Unconventional romance films to stop you in your tracks
Cinema, that magical realm where lives like ours are writ large, has had its fair share of star-crossed lovers over the years. From childhood sweethearts regrouping as changed people to career aspirations impeding romantic connections, many on-screen romances have featured heartache as a central facet of love. The films featured...
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‘We thought we had entered hell’: Holocaust survivor Mindu Hornick gives talk to Warwick students
Holocaust survivor Mindu Hornick MBE returned to Warwick University on Tuesday for a talk and Q&A attended by over 400 students. The talk, organised by the University’s Jewish Society (JSoc), took place in the Ramphal Building (unlike last year’s Arts Centre-set event), and saw the 95-year-old retrace her memories of...
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A conversation with Dr Pierre Purseigle: how the LA wildfires show us that ‘there’s no such thing as a natural disaster’
The apocalyptic wildfires of Los Angeles are already a few weeks in the past. While LA doubles down on its recovery and reconstruction efforts, the wider world has relapsed into complacency. ‘Everyday’ quotidian events have re-occupied our mental maps – life must go on, it seems. I spoke to Warwick...
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Let them eat cupcake? University’s 60th birthday celebrations descend into farce
Warwick’s 60th birthday celebrations descended into chaos on Wednesday as Warwick Stands With Palestine (WSWP) activists disrupted the launch event in the Piazza. The event – scheduled to start at 12:30pm and promising “cake for 600 people” – was heavily attended, with the ongoing winter graduation ceremonies only making the...
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Paddington in Peru shows that it’s not the place that matters — it’s the people
British pop culture’s favourite well-mannered ursine, Paddington Brown, has become ever more beloved in recent years. Director Paul King’s 2014 and 2017 screen adaptations of the character, who first appeared in Michael Bond’s 1958 children’s book ‘A Bear Called Paddington’, proved instant family classics, with Paddington 2 at one point...
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2025 Boar Resolutions
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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Somewhere in my memory: Why Home Alone still holds a special place in families’ hearts
The time of year is nigh when we snuggle into the sofa, hot chocolate or mulled wine in hand, the Christmas tree lights twinkling nearby. The only thing missing from that cosy equation is, of course, a festive film. We all have our unique Yuletide staples, but one particular series...
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Decluttering the ‘mancave’: How projects like Warwick Arts Centre’s ‘Community Talking Shed’ are using collaborative art to fight the mental health crisis
What is it with men and sheds? Maybe it’s the fact that they provide an easy refuge down the bottom of the garden, where men (especially dads) can shut themselves away from the world, tinkering away at their latest DIY obsession. Warwick Arts Centre’s ‘Community Talking Shed’, however, was a...
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Fame-thirsting or society-nursing? What the recent lookalike contest trend has revealed about 2020s celebrity culture
There’s a chance that someone has told you you’re the spitting image of a celebrity at one point or another. You might even have quietly convinced yourself of that fact. I had the Timothée Chalamet compliment bestowed upon me once – apparently, it was just the hair, but that’s good...
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