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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
The Bolsonaros have once again failed to win control over the levers of power, with Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva securing a fourth presidential term in Brazil, defeating Flavio Bolsonaro in a neck-and-neck race. How did Lula, condemned to a near-certain defeat after Brazil’s first-round elections, manage to achieve a...
Andy Burnham has encouraged UK households to stock up on three days’ worth of bottled water, tinned food, and emergency supplies, emphasising the importance of preparedness in case of a national crisis. This advice follows a series of serious weather events that have swept Britain, with Storm Austen placing over...
Upon first glance, not much would appear to have changed in the Main Library. To the average student, the laptops look the same as they ever did before— and yet, a costly change has taken place in recent weeks. The addition of ‘Flexible Learning Spaces’ to the second floor of...
Lifestyle
It’s nine o’clock on a Saturday night and the Pentlands stretch off into the distance. Four girls in fancy dress stumble off a bus faced to end up surrounded by nothing but a country road, barbed wire fence, hedgerows, and a sign for “Dreghorn Barracks,” “3rd Battalion Army Base.” I’m...
Looking for a new cocktail bar in Edinburgh? Try Understory! After a dinner date in a restaurant around the corner, the server recommended us Understory, a new cocktail bar that opened August 2026. It lies below the prominent Ghillie Dhu on the West End but promises a much different atmosphere...
“I feel like time is passing me by so quickly at university, but I still want to make the most of my time and get out there and do things – how do I make the most of my time but also make sure I don’t burn out” ? My...
Science & Environment
Teeth, ribs, a right hand, and a shoulder blade with a puncture wound 15mm wide. These are all that remain of a Neanderthal man who may give us greater insight into just how violent life was for our human ancestors. Excavated from the Shanidar cave, in Iraqi Kurdistan, archaeologists believe...
A testicular tissue transplant surgery to preserve fertility has been conducted on a 19-year-old man by NHS Lothian in Edinburgh, following his childhood cancer treatment. This surgery is the first of its kind in the UK and only the second reported worldwide. Semen freezing for adolescent and adult males before...
Google has committed total landscape devastation in rural northern Finland, where a once-thriving boreal forest has been reduced to a bare expanse of sodden silt. Over recent months, an estimated quarter of a million trees have been illegally felled from a 330 hectare site near the town of Muhos. On...
Sport
Last week, Kimi Antonelli was crowned the youngest world driver’s champion ever at only 20 years old. He was afforded this opportunity because Lewis Hamilton left Mercedes, and they took a chance with a rookie in 2025. When young drivers win the F2 championship, there is an expectation for them...
It’s official: Kimi Antonelli is Formula 1’s youngest ever World Drivers’ Champion, and the last remaining vestige of my youth has disappeared. I’m half-joking, but athletes do just seem to be getting younger. Back in the day, the best drivers around were in their mid 40s, balding, and jumping in...
Lewis Hamilton finally secured his first Grand Prix pole position for Ferrari in Mexico. It should have been the beginning of a perfect weekend. Instead, an opening-lap battle with teammate Charles Leclerc saw both drivers run wide, with Leclerc emerging ahead and receiving a penalty. Ferrari had the pace to...
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