Editor's Picks
EXCLUSIVE
Spending by the University of Edinburgh’s college offices — the management tier that sits above its schools — rose by a third in the year staff were told £140m had to be cut, The Student can reveal. The Student broke down £1.81b of departmental spending across the 2023/24 and 2024/25...
The University of Edinburgh is set to continue with cuts as the academic year progresses, with the School of Social and Political Science (SPS) being “asked to deliver a savings target of £3m” over the next two years, The Student understands. In an internal email seen by The Student sent...
Latest in Culture
Features
Imagine being twenty-five years into your career as an actor: you’re still booked and busy with five movie premieres in one single year. You are a respected artist and childhood icon to an entire generation. All while Emily Blunt and Dakota Johnson are both claiming the paternity of your unborn...
April 2026 saw the release of Antoine Fuqua’s Michael, a biopic about Michael Jackson. Following in a long line of biopics currently dominating cinema, it stars Jaafar Jackson, Michael’s nephew, as the late Pop giant. However, a spectre haunts discussions of the film. In 2019, the documentary Leaving Neverland (2019)...
The trailer for Brand New Day (2026), the fourth Spider-Man movie in the MCU, was released last week, promising the most poignant movie in the quartet. Following the end of No Way Home (2021), Peter Parker is all alone as he tackles not only a new mysterious enemy but also...
Opinion
At a recent rally in Kent, Reform UK announced their new pledge to suspend the UK’s asylum system “for up to five years” if they get into office, and to deport all criminals. Instead of focusing on making the asylum system more efficient, or supporting people fleeing abject horror in...
In the bloody culture wars that percolated the last decade, many beloved culture figures were permanently tinged by their unseemly, bigoted, misunderstood and/or illegal behaviour during their career, and the cultural taste of those who still enjoy their work blighted in the minds of those around them: “how can you...
In May, Green Party leader Zack Polanski declared that two party politics was “dead and buried” as the party celebrated a historic local election result. The same seemed true after Hannah Spencer’s titanic success in Gorton and Denton, consigning Labour to an embarrassing third place in a historically safe seat....
Lifestyle
Whilst ‘freshers flu’ may be behind us, there’s no time to get too comfortable, as the flu season of the winter months is officially upon us. The respite you can get from university work while ill is limited, and pushing through the all consuming misery is often a must. Which...
The Celebrity Traitors series seems to be all the rage at the moment, especially if it so happens that you have a middle-aged mother who swoons over James Blunt! It’s a pleasantly excruciating watch, a sweet curation of accusation and superstition, which blended with big-shot celebrity personalities, amounts to gripping...
In school, physical education felt like a humiliation ritual which meant that I was reluctant to try any hobbies that involved physical activity. It seemed to me generally that a hobby was just an impressive skill for your personal statement and had to be practised from a young age. Otherwise,...
Science & Environment
Andy Burnham looks set to decide on whether to approve the Jackdaw and Rosebank fields in the North Sea. Supporters argue the fields would offer jobs, cheaper bills and energy security, while critics argue that drilling undermines climate goals and will not lower consumer bills. Burnham wants to reduce costs...
Edinburgh Napier graduate Emily Youngs has won the Create Change Challenge at the prestigious Converge Awards for her remarkable innovation in endometriosis detection technology. The young entrepreneur is to receive £30,000 to kickstart her business WombWise in its mission to support women seeking a diagnosis. The wearable technology was designed...
You can keep your Ballon d’Ors, your Grammys, even your Oscars. For scientists and science-lovers alike, the biggest week in the calendar is the announcement of the Nobel Prizes. The prizes, the legacy of Swedish inventor Alfred Nobel, are awarded each year to those who have made “contributions that have...
Sport
The University of Edinburgh’s women’s and men’s hockey clubs will hold a joint blood drive from 16 to 30 November, as figures show young people are giving less blood. In England, figures from NHS Blood and Transplant (NHSBT), reported by the BBC, show that the proportion of regular donors aged...
Some Formula 1 seasons are more interesting than others — there can be teammate fallouts, broken records, down-to-the-wire championship battles, and plenty of movement between teams. 2026 just hasn’t been one of those years. I will, however, refrain from my regularly-scheduled disdain for the state of F1 to talk about...
On September 29, Rui Takahashi, a Japanese volleyball player for the Suntory Sunbirds (a team in Japan’s top professional league, the SV.League), announced on Instagram that he is “gay and a member of the sexual minority.“ Takahashi is the first member of a men’s team sport in Japan to come...
Fringe 2026
