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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...
Ryan Gosling’s latest film Project Hail Mary is set to release this week, to much anticipation from fans and critics alike. So, as viewers flock to the cinemas to see his latest endeavour, it is time we explore: what is it about Gosling that is so appealing? His popularity is...
Opinion
This July, I decided to apply to the Polish president’s, Karol Nawrocki’s, two-day forum on the last weekend of August for both national and international Polish young adults (ages 18-26), which took place in Jurata, Poland. Although Poland’s president is known to be right-wing, he emphasised that this event was...
Did you ever hear about the gangster Don Trump? He made the Canadians an offer they could only refuse. Trade talks between the U.S. and Canada broke down recently, with PM Mark Carney stating that this resulted from American demands that would have undermined Canadian sovereignty. These last-minute demands were...
I have had trouble falling asleep my entire life. As a baby, I kept my parents red eyed with constant midnight crying, and nowadays, I keep my flatmates awake with my late-night clattering in the kitchen. I have spent countless hours staring into my ceiling willing myself to sleep and...
Culture
Another season, another academic year, and once again, another resident in Downing Street. Andy Burnham has packed his bags and moved into the building, bringing with him another new plan with which to salvage the increasingly unstable British political system. One of the major core aims of his plan? Decentralisation. ...
Perhaps my summer reading has followed an unorthodox route, resembling less ‘hot girl summer reads’ and more ‘eclectic mash of biographical classics.’ However, whether consciously or not, there was one overarching theme. In two words, that theme was true heat. Maybe truer than any other possible ‘theme’ of summer, we...
Today I will be exercising my qualified privilege of the freedom of expression to assert three texts that I believe should and would be a great addition onto any English Literature curriculum whether that be A-Level, Scottish Highers, or even on my own undergraduate course. For my first suggestion I...
Science & Environment
While people struggled in the heat of yet another extreme summer, the new Prime Minister waited 25 days before amention of climate change. In the meantime, he discussed North Sea oil with Trump proclaiming a “pragmatic” approach to be taken, with the aim of easing the financial pressure on British...
Swimming 25km in the name of mental health: Edwin Ivanescu knows what it means to go the distance. Mental health is a more prominent issue today than it has ever been: more than half of students surveyed in a 2022 study reported issues with their mental health. Yet, one side...
Since Iran closed the Strait of Hormuz, commercial traffic has reduced by 95%, with serious implications for global fuel supplies. The blockade has been enforced with missiles, drones, and mines. However, while oil fixates the minds of the public, there is more to the Strait than the flow of fossil fuels. Hormuz is a hotspot of biodiversity in an otherwise inhospitable region. With high...
Lifestyle
Before Welcome Week of my first year at university, my parents told me I was about to experience some of the best years of my life, during which I would make unforgettable memories. Flash forward three years, and my father sits me down before I set off for my final...
With the height of summer upon us, many of us will find ourselves repeating a mistake we have made many times before: forming an attachment to someone who, come autumn, will leave us in the dust. It’s an inherently romantic idea, the thought of romance coming hard and fast, and...
In term-time, Pleasance Courtyard is unassuming. It is reserved for gym goers and University societies, and tends to be a quieter area of campus. However, in August, the space is unrecognisable. Transformed into three bars, with tens of performance spaces in rooms previously reserved for writer’s meetings and dance classes,...
Sport
From North London to the east coast of Yorkshire, Greek footballers are making their presence felt across English football. A wave of summer transfers has given the Premier League its strongest Greek presence in years, with Christos Tzolis, Konstantinos Tzolakis and Charalampos Kostoulas among those already attracting attention. At Arsenal,...
Remember when advertising alone could make you want a pair of football boots? For me, you’d have to go back to 2014. In the run-up to the World Cup, Nike released some all-time promotional videos for their newest products, which had me and every other ten-year-old begging their parents for...
Mercedes domination has marked the first half of the 2026 Formula One (F1) season and, as of the Spanish Grand Prix, eight of their 10 wins belong to 20-year-old Kimi Antonelli. Last year the Italian driver had a fantastic rookie season, with three podiums and placing seventh overall in the...
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