The last polymath?
Reflections on the passing of Sir Clement Freud, MP, comedian, writer and chef.
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Wednesdays now free after 1pm
University of Warwick has changed the policy on lectures on Wednesday afternoons bringing the time advised for lectures to finish to 1pm instead of 2pm.
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March of the Zapotec
The music of Beirut cannot ever be described as anything in any way remotely resembling cool; it’s most certainly not the kind of thing you would hear in nightclubs, being sung along to in shops, or even being played on the radio. Instead it is far more reminiscent of an...
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Jusqui’ici tout va bien…
So far, so good for La Haine as Alex King finds that after 15 years it has lost none of its relevance, or its burning anger.
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Mental magic
At the beginning of the year, when I made my picks from 2008’s new US shows, The Mentalist barely made it on to the list. The concept wasn’t promising – after all, who needed yet another procedural drama in which a team of mavericks solve crime using only their intuition...
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Union campaigns to get students involved in clubs and societies
The Students Union is launching a campaign this week to encourage more students to join societies and sports clubs. The scheme, “Better late than never”, replaces last year’s poorly attended Re-Freshers fair, and aims to get societies and clubs to organise events and socials similar to those held during Freshers’...
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Fans go nuts
Here’s a story for you. Last summer, CBS cancelled Moonlight, by all accounts a lacklustre attempt to remake Angel as a crime drama. This show, in short, was bad. Its going left the world of TV a cleaner, better place. And yet, the news of its demise made one fan...
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Dark End of the Street EP
Considering that she’s a beautiful woman who has forged a significant portion of her reputation out of covering everybody from Janis Joplin to Billie Holiday, from the Velvet Underground to Oasis, the music press don’t half get a kick out of rather reverently musically intellectualising Cat Power. From Uncut magazine’s...
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US student numbers up 10.9 percent in UK
US students look to UK for higher education
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