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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
There’s recently been news about a developer who has managed to “build free, open-source alternatives to Adobe’s creative apps” using Claude, Anthropic’s AI assistance model. Regardless of their current effectiveness, which is being debated, this development has sparked some discussions about how AI can effectively surpass ridiculously over-priced corporate paywalls...
Forget hot-girl summer, Euro-summer, or whatever facile tagline comes next — it was a far-right nostalgia summer and it’s about time we addressed it. In August, Nigel Farage won back his seat in Clacton-on-Sea for the Reform Party with 63.34 per cent of the vote. In early September, the extreme-right...
Trump’s recent “Diesel Deal” with Russia mathematically can’t work, and that doesn’t matter to him. To provide some background, on Friday 9 October, Trump announced that he had made a deal with Russia to lift sanctions and allow 300,000 metric tons of Russian diesel to be imported into the US...
Lifestyle
Waking up in my own bed after a Wednesday night out, I became aware that this isn’t the norm at university. In fact, I should’ve woken up confused in an unfamiliar flat with my clothes nowhere to be found. But with the resurgence of purity culture, university’s social norms about...
The vegetables I’m using this week are squash, some baby potatoes, purple sprouting broccoli and some mushrooms. I wanted a recipe which could use all these lovely vegetables, was hearty and warm, and could chuck the leftovers in the fridge for tomorrow. The result is this curry! It provides four...
I’ve been in a relationship for the last two years with my best friend from high school and we’ve just started long distance. I’m at university whilst they’re on a year abroad. We’ve been struggling to stay in contact and I’m beginning to question whether or not we should be...
Science & Environment
After 13 years, Grand Theft Auto VI (GTA VI) will finally release on 19 November. Developed by Rockstar Games, whose Edinburgh North office is located just one mile from Edinburgh University’s main library, GTA VI is expected by analysts to smash sales records. As the hype builds on social media,...
Much health-related news that features in the tabloids is focused on the wrong things, or doesn’t deserve coverage at all. It’s often sensationalist drivel – clickbait headlines about miracle drugs and futuristic possibilities, based on flimsy scientific evidence. These stories always fizzle out by the next news cycle. Meanwhile, there...
What breathes even in the vacuum of space? If you guessed whisky, you might be an enthusiast, but also scientifically correct. A literally out-of-this-world joint mission between Scotland and Japan will launch in 2028 aboard a SpaceX resupply flight to the International Space Station (ISS), aiming to produce the first...
Sport
The global sports industry is valued at around $123 billion in 2026. Comparatively, the entire global refrigerators market is worth $126 billion. What caused this unfounded explosion, you may ask? Gambling has always been popular for its inherently addictive nature, but sports gambling has recently captured the attention of the...
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...
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