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I never thought fluorescent knitwear and Southeast London would hold such emotional weight for me, but here we are! As the festive season quickly approached, I’m sure everyone else was…

It’s the first morning of 2026, and I’m watching a video my mum’s sent me. To mark the beginning of the year, Polish PM Donald Tusk is listing his top…

Christmas. First, a celebration of Jesus’ birth is now the epitome of late-stage capitalism. Copious amounts of food, presents, and booze take centre-stage whilst Bibles rest unopened. Having lost its…

If, like me, you are someone who’s favourite part of the festive season is the weeks of build-up and ever-growing anticipation, then a trip to your local Christmas market is…

Christmas Day has passed; presents, food comas and tipsy board games are once again a distant memory. However, by 8:59 p.m., these frivolities were shoved, unceremoniously, to the back of…

Dante’s Divina Commedia La Divina Commedia (The Divine Comedy) by Dante Alighieri is an Italian narrative poem composed between 1308 and 1320, published just before he died in 1321. Split…

As decorations have been in stores since the summer holidays, it is inevitable that many students may have gotten into the Christmas spirit sometime around October 1, and then out…

For university students, heading home for the winter holidays can be a welcome retreat from the bustling campus lifestyle to familiar home surroundings. But for elderly people, whose only relatives…

With the festive season approaching, the most wonderful time of year will soon be upon us! Eggnog, warm fires, carolers, and beautiful gifts are amongst the things I’m immediately reminded…

Words by Beth Brown Thinking back to the nineteen (soon to be twenty!) Christmases I have lived, a few gifts still stand out. My pink Nintendo DS. The Zayn Malik…

By Ivana Kitova, Staff Writer It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas and with that I know that your nearest and dearest are undoubtedly deserving of all the love,…

It’s that time of the year again. You’re left staring at the halloween costume hung up in the corner of your room and wondering what happened to November. Christmas has…

Nothing feels more Christmassy than curling up in front of a cheesy Christmas film, with a mug of hot chocolate, on a wintery December evening. However, some of the most…

Why, at the time when we need people to engage with what’s happening to the world around us, was Iceland’s advert banned? With so many terrible and destructive things happening…

I’ll admit straight out I’m not a big fan of pantomimes. Too often the performances are wobbly, the jokes are a bit naff, and it’s all stuff we’ve seen before…

“Pretend we’re back in 1861 because Charles Dickens is back in the building.” So begins a truly magical night at the Royal Pavilion. It isn’t hard to pretend. The exotic…

This holiday season, the Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts is presenting a pantomime adaption of beloved fairy tale Pinocchio. Pinocchio is the story of a puppet carved by the…

There’s nothing to get you in the Christmas spirit quite like an evening of good festive entertainment, and The Noise Next Door’s appearance at Komedia last week was exactly that.…

Comedy quartet The Noise Next Door arrive at Komedia this weekend for their one-of-a-kind comedy show blending improv, music, geekery and a good helping of Christmassness for good measure. Having…

Since time immemorial, our partially evolved and imperfect species have marked and charted the passing of our days not simply by the cycles of the moon, or the changing of…