Cory, as usual, impressed us all with fantastic solos, trading bars seamlessly throughout most songs. The star of the band, however, was Nick Semrad, the keys player set up stage left. He pulled out ...

Following major elections across the West and several transfers of power, China's leadership post-Xi Jinping is a topic gaining greater prominence. Now 71 and in the middle of his third five-year term ...

Few films have ever made me cry. Leon: The Professional caught me off guard with its innocent sweetness, 生きる (Ikiru) eloquently answered the question ‘What do we live for?’, and Past Lives left me ...

My problematic fave is the German-born singer Nico, who found fame as a Warhol Superstar, working with The Velvet Underground on their debut album. She then went on to discover the harmonium and make ...

With International Women's Day approaching, and our Editor-in-Chief asking if I was interested in writing for this week's editorial, I thought long and hard about how to approach the question. I ...

As soon as I started writing this piece, I was surprised to see the news that Pope Leo XIV has been crowned and seated in the chair of St Peter. Very few could’ve predicted the emergence of the USA’s ...

Two thousand and twenty-five has marked a worrying shift in the UK’s infectious disease landscape. The country faces great challenges posed by resurging vaccine–preventable illnesses, cross–species ...

The Great Exhibition Road Festival ran for the 174 th time this year. The festival poses a great opportunity for science and research consortiums to present their work to the public, as well as giving ...

This year “Brian Cox Effect” is once again being hailed as the factor responsible for the number of applications to physics degrees continuing to buck falling national trends seen in the majority of ...

One may ask ‘What has art got to do with voting for the lesser of two evils?’. Yet, there is a spoken half-truth in the arts section that it usually has everything to do with everything. Elections are ...

15th Nov 2019Days of Abandon: Shimmering Sounds Tinged with Sad Mopery 5 stars In their third album, Days of Abandon, The Pains of Being Pure at Heart almost ditched their last album’s heart bursting ...

New Imperial President Hugh Brady earns markedly less than his predecessor Alice Gast – but still over nine times as much as the median employee, according to Imperial’s latest annual report. The ...