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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...
Autumn Durald Arkapaw has won the Oscar for best cinematography at the 98th Academy Awards, for her work on Ryan Coogler’s Sinners, becoming the first woman to have received the honour. She is also the first person of African-American descent (Arkapaw is part Filipino and African American Creole) to have...
Opinion
The sea of bright pink signs across The University of Edinburgh in the past week will not have been welcomed by all. Least pleased by the demand flashed across the top, ‘Stop the Cuts,’ is perhaps Prof Sir Peter Mathieson, principal and staunch defender of his announcement of £140m cuts, compulsory redundancies and the closure of 90 programmes, which he insists amounts to protecting “future generations of students” who “won’t be able...
Wall Street Journal (WSJ) columnist Sumathi Reddy and her recent wellness article titled ‘Ditch the 40-Ounce Water Bottle: You’re Probably Hydrated Enough’, has sparked a heated online discourse after it argued that people are exaggerating about how much water they must drink. Readers were quick to equate such messaging to...
On 27 September, an Orange Order march attempted to make its way down Garvaghy Road in Portadown, County Armagh. For 30 years, they had been forbidden from parading in the highly Catholic, pro-Irish neighbourhood; but, when a legal case was brought to court this summer, they were granted the right to follow...
Culture
Think The Greatest Showman but without the brilliant music and the moving storyline. In other words: The Showman. Barnum opened at Edinburgh Festival Theatre with a bang but not a lot more. It follows the life of the eponymous P.T Barnum, played by Matt Rawle, converting him from a man...
Sterling Point is everything we’ve forgotten a teen drama can be. Instead of feeding us another book adaptation — something that has become so much the norm that watching a show with no previous backstory seems almost odd — Amazon Prime’s latest teen drama reminds us why real TV should...
Mikhail Bulgakov’s 1938 novel, The Master and Margarita, astutely criticises authoritarianism and censorship in Stalin’s Russia. It is also, simply, an incredibly fun read. The novel is primarily set in Soviet Moscow, where the devil takes the form of a Professor Woland and decides to wreak havoc with his band...
Science & Environment
Meta claims their smart glasses are “designed for privacy,” but do Meta’s data practices backup this up ? Many people, particularly women, are being secretly filmed. These recordings are then reportedly passed to overseas companies and used to train further models. Meta glasses are embedded with technology that enables users...
“Roman is going to change the way we look at the Universe.” Those were the lofty expectations set by NASA Admin-istrator Nicky Fox on the day of the Nancy Grace Roman Telescope’s launch on 30 August.Named after the first woman to serve as an executive at NASA, their latest telescope...
The western honeybee is found in all continents except Antarctica, but this might not be the case for much longer. Europe has the lowest density of free living honeybees in the world, and a study into the projected population pattern of the species has estimated the number of western honeybees...
Lifestyle
Now that summer is officially over and Edinburgh’s dark evenings are beginning to loom, I can already feel the cold weather creeping in. My favourite cure? Getting out of Edinburgh altogether, because who says holidays have to end with summer? Autumn is arguably the best season to escape the city...
When beginning the process of writing this article, I found myself asking: what is a youth club? My ignorance of the term speaks volumes. These institutions, once places of community that inspired new hobbies and forged new friendships, have fallen off our radar and off our streets. Between 2010 and...
I recently made the move from Marchmont to Bruntsfield, and it has been quite the eye-opener – literally. Although it was tough to lose the leafy-green view of the trees which lined my old street, I have at least gained a direct sightline of Edinburgh Castle, as well as the...
Sport
Football fans and meme pages are very creative these days. The Premier League has its very own ‘Bermuda Triangle’ now. They consist of Brighton, Brentford and Bournemouth. As quoted by Sky Sports, ‘Strange patch of PL territory stretches from west London to the south coast, where the top clubs cannot...
I have lost count of the times I’ve run laps of the Meadows. I’ve been there in the quiet of early morning and in the peak of the afternoon, weaving around pedestrians, bikes and people I would really rather not bump into looking like a sweaty mess. At 2.5 km...
Most of us don’t feel a great need to leap off a cliff, jump out of a plane, or surf a massive, deadly wave. However, for an ever-growing part of the population, extreme sport seems to be a go-to activity. But what draws people into starting these high-risk sports? In...
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