Following a demonstration urging Coventry City Council to end its partnership with technology firm Palantir on Tuesday 2 September, cabinet members have announced that they will review the contract over the next four weeks. As reported by The Guardian, the contract expands on a one-year pilot scheme which uses AI...
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On 31 July, without any warning or legal notice, Israeli forces used bulldozers and heavy machinery to destroy a seed bank in the West Bank city of Hebron. The central control room was demolished, infrastructure was ruined, and many genetic strains of native Palestinian species were lost forever. Ecocide has...
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Staff from the University of Warwick attended a webinar which coached universities on how to secure sweeping protest bans on their campuses, an investigation by Liberty Investigates and The Guardian has revealed. Documents obtained as part of the investigation show that Warwick staff attended the webinar, which took place last...
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LGBTQUIA+ societies at Warwick, alongside Students’ Union (SU) representatives, have called for a boycott of Warwick’s Pride Month events, after condemning the University’s handling of its transgender inclusion policies. In a joint statement, Warwick Pride, Warwick Trans* Soc, Warwick Sapphic Soc, The Qulture, and Warwick PLAN all criticised the...
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Our outgoing Editorial Board for 2024–25 bid farewell, and describe their final thoughts about their time with The Boar.
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Though The Boar is becoming a big name in the world of UK student journalism, recently winning an overwhelming number of awards at the Midlands’ SPA Regionals and a nomination for Best Publication at the upcoming Nationals, many of us fell into this newspaper rather unexpectedly. My first experience with...
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There is no singular ‘neurodivergent experience’ at university. Not only do many labels fall under this umbrella term, but all neurodivergent conditions are experienced uniquely by the individual, and our relationship to aspects of university life is far from equivalent. Though ‘neurodivergent’ implies deviation from some abstract notion of ‘normality,’...
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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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The launch of the 2024/25 academic year brought a new addition to the University of Warwick campus, and with it, an unprecedented tirade of discourse and criticism. The modest collection of chairs and tables aside Café Library had never before been given a second thought by students speeding between lectures...
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“What matters more, art or life?” Phoebe Plummer’s question echoed through the National Gallery on October 14 2022. Now, nearly two years on, the law has stepped in to give its answer: art. Well, more specifically, the framing of art. It was the “corrosive effect” of tomato soup on the...
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The Conservative Party’s 1978 poster ‘Labour Isn’t Working’ is widely considered the blueprint of political party banner campaigning. Awarded Campaign magazine’s ‘poster of the century’ in 1999, the long and short term impact of the piece has cemented it as the benchmark from which most political marketing is now measured. The poster depicts...
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Fantasy novel sales are on the rise, having doubled since 2010 and are now forecasted to break the £50m mark for the first time ever this year. Aside from social media’s enormous contribution to the genre’s popularity, the take-off of fantasy’s success can be attributed largely to a growing desire...
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