• Matteo Everett: “Maybe campus changes are justified”

    Let’s be honest, we all loved open days, don’t we? Sure, the long car – or even worse train – journeys sucked, that sickening mixed feeling of uncertainty and excitement driving us crazy on the way home, but it was worth it for seeing a new part of the...
  • Album Review: Kanye West – Ye

    Two years after the promised Turbo Grafx 16 was struck from record and several Twitter rants of varying comprehensibility later, Kanye West’s eighth studio record has finally landed in the stream-o-sphere. While Ye does nothing to reinvent the wheel, it seeks to reaffirm “this generation’s closest thing to Einstein”’s...
  • Arctic Monkeys – Album Ranking

    For many, ranking Arctic Monkeys records is almost like choosing a favourite child. Arguably the closest thing this generation has to the Beatles, the band have constantly renewed their sound with every record, while maintaining a massive global fanbase essentially from the get-go. With their sixth album, the sure-to-be-divisive...
  • In Scott Laudati’s Bones – Can Music Videos Save Poetry?

    Chances are you haven’t noticed, but poetry has experienced something of a revival recently. Love her or loathe her, Rupi Kaur’s collections have been flying off shelves, with no intention of stopping, faster than you can say ‘Instagram poetry is shit’. Claudia Rankine’s brilliant and experimental Citizen: An American...
  • Film Review: A Quiet Place

    It is a poorly-kept secret that the juxtaposition of the comic and the tragic elevates both ends of this duality to greater heights than they can achieve within themselves, yet the near-perfection of Jordan Peele’s Get Out still came as a surprise to many who couldn’t comprehend that a...
  • Here’s why the university should be financially compensating students over the strikes

    Four weeks of stressful strikes might prompt some naysayers to joke that the issue has afforded students more lie-in time, but the university strikes are no laughing matter. I must preface this article by saying the views expressed herein are by no means a condemnation of striking staff or...
  • Death of the Record?

    Vinyl lovers, maybe it’s time to come to terms with the demise of ‘traditional ways’ to listen to music. With an increasing number of mainstream artists shirking from conventional long-plays, we may just be on the brink of the death of the record. Black Eyed Peas’ comeback single ‘Street...
  • No Woman’s Land @ Nottingham Lakeside Arts

    Described as a “politically charged nod to 1920s Kaberett”, focus on this form ends up undermining the political messages of No Woman’s Land, and while the play (or more accurately, performance piece) retains a fingerfull of redeeming features, it is by and large an incoherent mess. In 2015, Zoo...
  • Take it from a Londoner, Corbyn is right about de-centralisation

    Last week, Jeremy Corbyn, speaking at the EEF Manufacturers’ Organisation, announced that he would curb London’s power if he ever became Prime Minister. This shouldn’t come as a shock. A “fundamental shift” in the country’s economic policy has always been one of Corbyn’s most appealing promises, but a move...
  • Album Review: Tonight Alive – Underworld

    From the rollicking guitars and explosive chorus of opening track ‘Book of Love’, it’s clear Tonight Alive are ditching the pop elements that dominated much of their third effort Limitless, to return instead to the alt-rock of the fantastic 2013 The Other Side. Besides the surprise departure of guitarist...