The Boar’s Albums of the Year 2025
As the year has come to a close, it is time to reflect on some of the best releases of 2025. Here are The Boar‘s albums of the year! Is your favourite release featured on our list?
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Sam Capper
2026 Boar Resolutions
Happy 2026! Allow your favourite student journalists to inspire you with our annual attempts at renewal – whether that's proper hydration, banishing doomscrolling, or perfecting the art of the Letterboxd review.
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Put the matcha down! The problem with the ‘performative male’
The ‘performative male’ has become one of the most prominent internet trends of 2025, but it might not be as harmless as it seems. It’s time we truly worked out what makes a performative male tick. Firstly, let’s establish what exactly a ‘performative male’ is. The idea began in response...
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Teenage drinking may lead to future career success, study suggests
Norwegian sociologist Dr Willy Pedersen has claimed in a new study that those who begin heavily drinking at a young age will receive better education and higher income in later life. Pedersen’s observations have shown that those who developed ‘binge-drinking’ habits during their late teens and twenties went on to...
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The AI artist epidemic: Does art still need emotion?
The availability of artificially generated ‘art’ continues to grow. The tech industry insists that AI is here to stay. Should creators and audiences of art now surrender to the existence of the ‘AI artist’? While experimentation with generative technology has been ongoing since the 1950s, the ‘AI Art’ we know...
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Pursuit of greatness: The best actors of the decade (so far)
Since 2020, the film industry has undergone drastic change, altering what constitutes a ‘good’ actor, so which actors have exceeded mere talent and demonstrated genuine influence so far this decade? Timothée Chalamet: He was already a familiar face before the decade began thanks to his breakout role in 2017’s Call...
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Who’s Madeline? Is ‘call-out’ lyricism going too far?
Sam Capper exposes the art of name-dropping on Lily Allen's new album.
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Coachella to Cannes: Celebrities turn to prestige acting
With Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson returning to the big screen this month with The Smashing Machine, should we be concerned about the number of celebrities taking roles in film? From David Bowie in Labyrinth to Donald Trump in Home Alone 2, celebrities have found their way in front of movie...
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Taylor Swift’s ‘The Life of a Showgirl’ is a record-breaking disappointment
Sam Capper reviews Taylor Swift's most recent release 'The Life of a Showgirl'.
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