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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...
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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
In the closest Presidential race in Brazil’s history, Incumbent Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (called just Lula by the media) was re-elected in a near 51-49 vote share split against rival Flávio Bolsonaro. While Bolsonaro is free to act like a sore loser, attention should turn to what Lula’s victory...
Left-wing Brazilian president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva was triumphant in the most recent election, winning 51.79 per cent of the votes. President Lula placed importance on tackling poverty and reducing inequality, consistently putting working people at the heart of his politics. It is these admirable values that contributed to...
NHS consultants have announced a two-day strike next month in a new dispute over pay and working hours, leaving the rest of the country to ask: who will foot the bill? At 6.59am on 25 November, England’s most senior hospital doctors will walk out of their hospitals and provide only...
Lifestyle
An awkward breakfast or a swift abrupt gesture to the front door, followed by a dishevelled appearance at class wearing a turtleneck that was dragged out of the depths of your wardrobe, are frequently the aftermaths of a careless and inebriated post-club sleepover. Many of us have experienced the unpleasant...
On the surface, fashion may appear to be as simple as wearing low rise jeans to match the moment, but does its impact extend beyond the clothes we wear? Can fashion be political? Fashion shapes the way we are perceived, it is fluid, shifting in response to changes in the...
Sexy nurse or full body orange Lorax suit? The two opposites all girls are presented as Halloween creeps up. Apparently, you can only be either sexy or funny when Halloween rolls around, God forbid you try to be both. Women who choose to wear a revealing costume somehow appear less...
Science & Environment
In the early hours of the morning of 20 October, the Martian Moons Exploration spacecraft lifted off from the Tanegashima Space Center in Japan, destined for Mars’ distant and enigmatic moon, Phobos. Its goal is to extract a 10g sample of dust from the surface of Phobos and return it...
We have always believed orangutans to be a solitary species, the most solitary of all the great apes (disclaimer: not monkeys as the headline suggests), with mothers typically raising their offspring for seven to ten years alone. However new research has found that this might not actually be the case...
Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) is a painful chronic condition causes by inflammation inside the digestive tract. Currently, diagnosis is made after the onset of symptoms, using invasive tests and treatment involves various drugs that require constant review and alteration. The unremitting, flaring nature of the disease and frequent doctor’s appointments...
Sport
Cowboy hats, incredible overtakes, and a championship victory—motorsport does not get any better than this. With three races still left on the calendar, Alisha Palmowski secured the F1 Academy title in Austin, making her the youngest to do so at 20 years old, and the second British driver to claim...
Rallying in 2026 has been a wild ride, and as if we already have not had enough of epic final rounds, here is one more to add to the list. Osian Pryce and co-driver James Morgan have won the British Rally Championship, beating out young hopeful Max McRae in the...
While the Men’s Ballon D’or was one of the most contested races in recent years, the Women’s award was a little more predictable. Spain’s Alexia Putellas has won her 3rd Ballon d’Or Feminin after a superb year for Barcelona. Putellas, already considered one of the greatest women’s football players of...
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