Refinery29 • 19th October 2021

Sharking: The Grim Practice Where Older Students Prey On Freshers

Higher education’s rape culture isn’t breaking news. Sexual violence has become ingrained in campus life. The 2014 National Union of Students' "Hidden Marks" study revealed that over two thirds of female students have experienced some kind of harassment at university. It’s only in recent years, however, that incidents such as the Warwick group chat scandal, which exposed private messages between male students joking about raping female students, including planning "surprise sex with some freshers", have brought the problem to light. And it’s about time too.

The Boar • 16th June 2021

Warwick student on the University handling of her sexual assault case

A student who was under investigation by the University of Warwick for an alleged sexual assault continued to be employed by Terrace Bar in Warwick’s Students’ Union. An anonymous student at the University of Warwick has chosen to speak out to The Boar about the University’s handling of sexual misconduct proceedings against her alleged assailant, and the victim alleged that he continued to be employed at a bar in the Warwick’s Students’ Union during the course of the investigation.

The Boar • 18th April 2021

Farewell to ‘Keeping Up with the Kardashians’

Metro • 15th March 2021

The coronavirus vaccine goes against my vegan beliefs – but I'm still taking it

When my vegan mum told me she won’t be taking the coronavirus vaccine because it was tested on animals, I was understandably shocked.

The Boar • 14th February 2021

Sexual assault at Warwick: has enough changed since 2018’s Group Chat scandal?

It’s a chilly grey Sunday afternoon in late November, and small groups are beginning to gather on the Warwick University piazza. They huddle in clusters, wearing masks and holding hand-made cardboard signs: ‘Boys will be held accountable for their actions’, one reads; ‘Alcohol is not an excuse’, declares another. 10 or 20 minutes go by and the smaller groups increase into a crowd. Someone with a megaphone patrols to make sure demonstrators are social-distancing.

The New Collection • 27th January 2021

World, Interrupted: Veganuary, Viruses and the 'China Problem'

In her new column World, Interrupted, Cerys Turner questions why a plant-based diet has not been central to our conversations on changing our lifestyles post-pandemic.

The Boar • 18th January 2021

Pale Waves’ Heather Baron-Gracie chats growing up and falling in love for new album Who Am I?

“If I had carried on, I would have had three albums”, Heather Baron-Gracie says of writing her upcoming record Who Am I? for her band Pale Waves. She chats to me over Zoom, only a radiator visible from her London home. She’d spent Christmas with her parents back home in Preston – “I didn’t want to come back down to London – the cases are so bad”, Heather told me. Later that night the U.K. was plunged into a third lockdown.

The Boar • 29th December 2020

Is there a student mental health crisis on the rise?

Yo-yoing in and out of national lockdowns; last-minute exam changes and A-level U-turns; being blamed for a second-spike in coronavirus cases – 2020 hasn’t exactly been a great year for students.

The Boar • 25th November 2020

beabadoobee on her debut album Fake It Flowers: “my biggest influences are girls who rock”

We all have our small lockdown achievements: downloading (and subsequently deleting) Duolingo; perfecting our banana bread recipes; getting through all of Netflix’s rom-com offerings. Beatrice Laus – the love child of Tik Tok virality and lo-fi, otherwise known by her monicker beabadoobee – may have trumped us on the 2020 bucket list front, however.

The Boar • 26th October 2020

Bristol students to rent strike over “unacceptable” treatment

Students at the University of Bristol are going on a rent strike in protest of their “unacceptable” treatment in university accommodation.

The Boar • 9th October 2020

Ulysses Wells interview: “The funny thing about writing songs is that they sometimes come true”

Up-and-coming artist Ulysses Wells chats to Cerys Turner about his new EP, touring with Bastille and living in France during the Coronavirus pandemic.

The Boar • 7th October 2020

The best albums you may have missed this year

While 2020 may have been chaos, it birthed a new wave of creativity in the music scene. Some of our writers chat about their highlights from the past few months.

The Boar • 7th October 2020

The return of the noughties: 2000s fashion makes a comeback

At the beginning of lockdown, around a similar time to the Dalgona coffee trend and the international resurgence of Joe Exotic, me and my friend Adam began watching films via Netflix Parties, making our way through a slew of 2000s films to get us through those first dark few months.

The Meridian Magazine • 17th September 2020

Online learning doesn't work - university students deserve to be put first

Hearing the news that universities may not be reopening in September has brought on many unwelcome flashbacks to spring: split between the blissful naivety of planning summer trips with flatmates with growing anxiety that hoping for any sense of normality for the foreseeable future was all a pipe-dream. Now, almost six months on, I feel thrust into that limbo again.

6th September 2020

UCU demands regular Covid testing in Scottish universities for safe return this September

Education unions have called for a rigorous testing system to be implemented in Scottish universities in time for their return this month.

South West Londoner • 14th August 2020

Rishi's Eat Out to Help Out brings taste of success for businesses

Chancellor Rishi Sunak’s Eat Out to Help Out scheme was used more than 10.5 million times in its first week. The scheme – intended to boost Britain’s struggling hospitality sector -means the government pays for half of each meal eaten at a cafe, restaurant or pub on a Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday this month. The discount is capped at £10.

Candid Orange • 12th August 2020

Banksy, tube rats, and an artistic lesson in banality

A tube carriage, just like a public loo, isn’t quite the same without its share of scribbled expletives, vague tags and nondescript confessions of love. Graffiti has become part of the furniture in urban British areas.

The Boar • 21st July 2020

UK anti-terrrorism strategy has “blocked campus discussions”

The UK government’s anti-terrorism strategy, Prevent, has reinforced negative views of Islam and Muslims and has blocked campus discussions that could challenge discriminatory views, according to research.

Fuzzy • 14th July 2020

IDLES - 'A Hymn' Single Review | FUZZY

"Expression doesn’t just have to come in the form of shouting and rage: it can also be delivered with confession and allusion, concluded with a slow, fading heartbeat." “I wanna be loved/ Everybody does” are the first, ominous words of IDLES’ third single ‘A Hymn’, released on the 14th of July ahead of Ultra Mono, due for release in September.

The Indiependent • 3rd July 2020

Bandcamp donate day’s worth of profits in latest Bandcamp Friday waiver

Bandcamp CEO Ethan Diamond announced last week that today the company will be waiving a day’s worth of their revenue to the music industry. The online music company’s fees will temporarily cede for 24 hours from 8am July 4 to 8am July 5 BST. All profits will be donated directly to artists and labels impacted by the Coronavirus pandemic. Today will be the final instalment of their campaign, Bandcamp Friday. Every first Friday of the past three months, the company have donated 24 hours of their f