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British Airways Ends Brighton i360 Sponsorship

Words by Amy Holden, Staff Writer The British Airways i360 is the number one paid-for visitor attraction in Brighton, and it has been sponsored by British Airways since it opened…

America’s Worst Nightmare; Fluid Football

Words by Esteban Ramirez What’s the deal with America having so many breaks in their sports, what are they so scared about? My usual experience of watching football begins with…

Alopecia and me, losing my hair as a student

Hair has quite a distinct place in popular conscious- and no time does that feel more apparent than when you begin to lose yours. Hair, and indeed where it is,…

New Blood Test Could Identify Cancer Earlier With 95% Success Rate

Words by Maisie Levitt, Online News Editor University of Oxford scientists have developed a new blood test that may detect cancer and its spread early on. With a success rate…

The Ignorance of Influencers

Words by Roxanna Wright, staff writer Over the last decade, not only has social media ‘influencing’ become a career, but it has also become a massive part of our cultural…

Expert Says Protein from Gorse Bush Could Feed Millions of People

Words by Rebecca Chitolie, News Editor The invasive gorse bush could produce enough protein to “easily” feed millions of people, according to a leading expert. While gorse is native to…

Why Everyone Should Watch ‘Don’t Look Up’

Image Credits: IMDb Words By: Sellah Penteliuk A Netflix- produced movie took the reality that earth is inevitably dying and made a parody of it. The goal was to take…

What the New Gossip Girl is Missing

Words by Issy Anthony Money, mayhem and a sex drive that just won’t quit can only mean one thing: Gossip Girl is back on our screens. As part two of…

Why are so many athletes ‘anti-vax’?

words by Rosie Marilyn Burgess, Staff Writer At the time of writing this, Novak Djokovic is still awaiting a court hearing ahead of the start of the Australian open on…

South Korean President Moon Jae-In Pushes for Peace with North Korea Before His Presidency Ends

Words by Ritika Srivatsan, News Print Editor South and North Korea, the United States and China have agreed in principle to declare a formal end to the Korean War, stated…

The Ashes 2021/22 Review; First As Tragedy, Then As Farce

How do you solve a problem like English cricket? Words by Simon Edwards, Comment Online Editor It’s the hope that kills you. The run-up to the First Test of the…

Romanticising the Real: Dolly Alderton’s Everything I Know About Love (2018)

Words by Megan Whitehead, Staff Writer If I was ever forced onto a desert island and only had one item to bring with me, I would pick Dolly Alderton’s ‘Everything…

“One Day”

Image Credits: UCU Words By Jake Smajie. This Holocaust and Genocide Memorial Day’s theme is ‘one day’. It struck me than ‘one day’ is the length of the news cycles…

Filming The Unfilmable

Words by Simon Edwards, Comment Online Editor January 27th marks National Holocaust Memorial Day. This annual day of remembrance falls on the liberation date of Auschwitz-Birkenau in 1945, commemorated to…

Homosexuality Convictions to be Potentially Wiped From UK Records as an Amendment to the Controversial Changes in the Police and Crime Bill

Words by Mansi Tailor, Staff Writer The Home Office is set to “right the wrongs of the past” as a pardons scheme is being expanded that would remove all past…

Revolutionary Theatre: Les Misérables

Words my Molly Openshaw Looking at the journey of Victor Hugo’s Les Misérables, we can see how revolutionary it has been in the process of developing a novel into a…

The Night Freedom Burned

Image Credits: Wikipedia. Words by Lucy Dover. On the night of 9th November 1938, cries of angry mobs, broken glass and grief-stricken Jewish families could be heard across the cities…

Leading Members of Government Found to Have Breached Lockdown Restrictions Multiple Times

Words by Evie Felton, Staff Writer Over the course of January 2022, a series of allegations have come to light implicating various members of the Government and Civil Service, including…

Euphoria, Skins and Teenage Angst

Words by Emma Norris Trigger warning: mention of drugs, rape/abuse and mental illness The release of series two of Euphoria, timed alongside the finishing of my assessment period, led to…

Blending Romance and Realism (in progress)

Words by Molly Openshaw Over Christmas, I was the lucky recipient of a positive Covid test, leaving me susceptible to binge-watching Netflix and obsessively rereading novels. One of these shows…