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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
Freshers for Everyone By Sophia Owens “F*CK ME! IT’S FRESHERS.” “F*CK ME! IT’S REFRESHERS.” But why the separate label? They’re not so different, and really, it would save advertising companies some money and stress if they were to simply announce that Freshers Week is here again. Refreshers Week is essentially...
There’s a particular species of jargon which exists solely to make unsettling news sound like a team-building exercise at a corporate job. Words and phrases such as ‘restructuring,’ ‘strategic realignment’ and the like keep cropping up with regards to the university’s reports of its financial distress. Regrettably, it is not...
Since I’ve returned to Edinburgh from the (I’ve now discovered) exceptionally broad pavements of Warsaw, I keep getting stuck behind the oblivious trudging of barely-strolling walkers. Especially with Welcome Week and various promotional events taking place across the University campus for new and potential future students, slow walkers are horrifyingly...
Culture
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...
Historical Fiction has always been a genre that must be handled with care, particularly because it seems to focus on the more distressing aspects of past events, simply because they provide a more interesting story. But how much can you get away with altering history in the name of story-telling?...
C’était Ça ou Mourir (It Was Either That or Die), the debut novel of Canadian-Haitian writer Thélyson Orélien, was removed from the longlist for France’s most prestigious literary award after an anonymous accusation that it was at least partially generated by AI. The scuffle over the Prix Goncourt is only...
Science & Environment
“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...
A $100m philanthropic fund for firefighting was announced during the New York Climate Week and the UN general Assembly. The scheme was aimed towards South America, home to the Amazon, which endured its most severe fire seasons on record. The fund aims to improve detection and response with targets to...
Lifestyle
This is the perfect recipe for when you get home after a long day and begin to feel hungry but have no idea what to eat. This is something healthy and hearty which will keep you warm and full as you watch some TV before going to bed. It also...
This recipe is inspired by the vegetables from the Hearty Squirrel food co-operative, which provides local, organic, and affordable food from ethical sources. This week the vegetables on offer included a little squash, leeks and fresh sage, so I thought I would experiment and make a tart with them. I...
Someone has thrown up in your toilet. There are empty beer bottles on the kitchen counter, and the prospect of cleaning up tomorrow is already ruining tonight. Ah, the house party: fun while you’re there, depressing as you stare at the aftermath. Yet somewhere out there in the night, there’s...
Sport
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...
It feels like a long time ago that perhaps the most chaotic summer of men’s test cricket in living memory began at Lord’s with England facing New Zealand. The prolific return of Ollie Robinson (who took 28 wickets at an average of 9.32 this summer) and a first England test...
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